Word: bioethicsã
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...panel’s moderator, I. Glenn Cohen—an assistant professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics??introduced the panelists as a “truly intimating group of people” before each discussed their thoughts on science in relation to morality...
Glendon served on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics??a collection of doctors, legal and ethical scholars, and scientists created in 2001 that examines the ethics of human cloning, stem cell research, and other politically-charged medical issues. Glendon was rumored to be a potential Supreme Court nominee after Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement...
...boasts 659 members—not all of whom are scientists, but who are interested in either the research or its societal implications and bioethics??and a core group of about 50 to 100 conducting research in the field...
...scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his new book Our Posthuman Future, political scientist Francis Fukuyama—who is also a member of the influential President’s Council on Bioethics??makes the case for regulating the manipulation of human genes and the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac. His principle arguments against practices such as human reproductive cloning don’t rely on pointing out the serious risk of disease in the clone...
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