Ethics & Medicine back issues from April 2006:
SELECTING OUR EMBRYONIC CHILDREN
Apr 01, 2006; ... The scale of the questions raised by the access that in vitro and other artificial reproductive technologies (ART) have given us to the process of human procreation is hard to estimate. They have often seemed to cluster around our moral view of the early embryo, as if addressing, resolving, or ...
HUMAN DIGNITY: STILL DEFYING DEVALUATION
Apr 01, 2006; ... Is the concept of "human dignity" of any use in bioethics? Does it shed important light on the whole range of bioethical issues, from embryo research and assisted reproduction, through biomedical enhancement, to care of the disabled and the dying? Or is it, on the contrary, useless-at best a ...
THE MORAL STATUS OF THE EMBRYONIC HUMAN: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Apr 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction "The concept of an embryo is a staggering one, and forming an embryo is the hardest thing you will ever do," states Scott Gilbert in the seventh edition of his text, Developmental Biology. "To become an embryo, you had to build yourself from a single cell. You had to ...
ETHICS INVOLVED IN SIMULATION-BASED MEDICAL PLANNING
Apr 01, 2006; ... Abstract Computational biology, including simulation and modeling, is a burgeoning field with a recent influx of mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers. With this recruitment, significant advancement has been made in numerous biological areas. However, as is the case in ...
NORMATIVE ETHICS IN HEALTH CARE
Apr 01, 2006; ... Abstract The late David Thomasma insisted on "normative elements" to guide methodology for Ethics and Bioethics. "Normative elements" include moral principles from moral philosophy and theology, virtues from philosophy and religious traditions, facts and wisdom from supervised clinical ...
SUPPORTING ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN NON-RESIDENT ALIENS WITHIN LIMITS
Apr 01, 2006; ... Abstract It is common knowledge that the supply of cadaveric organs does not meet demand. This shortage is often used as ethical argument against transplantation in Non-Resident Aliens; however, this fact in isolation does not present a comprehensive picture of organ allocation in USA ....
NATURE'S END: THE THEOLOGICAL MEANING OF THE NEW GENETICS
Apr 01, 2006; ... Ever since the ancient Greeks, the ethical tradition of the West has been powerfully dominated by claims about human nature. Such an intellectual orientation has an eminently practical value. If we can indicate features common to all humanity as the basis of moral principles, we at least have a ...
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of the Normal
Apr 01, 2006; ... One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of the Normal Alice Dreger Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-8018-8070-X; 342 PP., PAPERBACK, $26.95 (HARDCOVER $49.95) As a historian of science, Alice Dreger presents several challenging theses regarding ...
Ending Life. Ethics and the Way We Die
Apr 01, 2006; ... Ending Life. Ethics and the Way We Die. Margaret Pabst Battin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-19-514027-3; 344 PP., PAPERBACK, NO PRICE QUOTED The author is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at ...
Physician-Assisted Dying
Apr 01, 2006; ... Physician-Assisted Dying Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin, Editors Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-8018-8070-X; 342 PP., PAPERBACK, $26.95 (HARDCOVER $49.95) Timothy Quill M.D. is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities at ...
Korean Cloning Scandal and Scientific Fraud
Apr 01, 2006; ... The recent discovery that the claims made by Hwang Woo-Suk to have cloned human embryos and developed lines of stem cells from those embryos was entirely fabricated has sent shock waves around the world, particularly for researchers and patients who had pinned their hopes on cures coming from ...
State Of The Union Address: Biotech statement
Apr 01, 2006; ... In the United States, the past three years now have been marked by the war in Iraq and bitter partisanship in Congress. A comprehensive ban on human cloning has been passed In the 2006 State of the Union address, US President Bush reiterated his opposition to the abuses of biotechnology, ...
Gamete Donors for IVF Clinics - should they remain anonymous?
Apr 01, 2006; ... The assisted reproductive medicine industry has grown since the first baby was born using in vitro fertilization in 1978. In the United States, the industry is almost entirely unregulated and is highly profitable for hospitals and independent clinics alike. As the first generation of children ...
Human-Rabbit Hybrids: The Key to Cloning?
Apr 01, 2006; ... Following up on the 2003 published research in which Chinese researchers claimed to derive stem cells from hybridized embryos using human nuclear DNA and rabbit eggs, British scientists are now seeking to conduct cloning and embryonic stem cell research using the same technique. This allows the ...
Nanotechnology Update
Apr 01, 2006; ... According to the National Nanotechnology Initiative, "Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering and technology, nanotechnology involves ...
Embryonic Stem Cells help Patents, Not Patients
Apr 01, 2006; ... A recent article written by an advocate for spinal cord research details the scientific and therapeutic differences between adult, or somatic stem cells, and embryonic stem cells. Nonembryonic stem cells have now been used to treat 65 different medical conditions, while the volatility of ...