Word: ethicists
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...ethicist Thomas Shannon sees it, "The application of in vitro fertilization has moved almost overnight from the lab to the clinic." Shannon, who teaches at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, might have added, and into the law courts as well. Like many other modern technological wonders, the artificial union of sperm and ovum to form a zygote, which is then frozen for eventual implantation in a woman's womb, has gone from the near miraculous to the almost mundane -- and ultimately to the moral dilemma. One current legal case addresses two of the key ethical questions raised by in vitro...
Because he spent years recruiting people likethe renowned ethicist Dennis F. Thompson andProfessor of Electoral Politics Shirley Williams,the school is now able to commit itself to astronger emphasis on ethics and politics in itscore curriculum, Allison says...
...fact, it appears that only after the announcement of the Shad grant did the B-School begin to display concern about retaining its ethics specialists. Shortly before announcement of the gift, the school advised its only junior ethicist, Associate Professor of Business Administration Kenneth E. Goodpaster, not to pursue tenure. B-School sources then said Goodpaster was told that if he sought tenure, he would be denied...
...Alameda County, the board of supervisors last January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and a member of the committee. "As a physician, I was trained to give the best possible care to anyone, period. Back when I was in medical school, I never thought I would be discussing this...
University of Washington ethicist Albert Jonsen is concerned that people with grave illnesses might be viewed simply as carriers of genetic traits. "Rather than saying 'Isn't that family unfortunate to have a schizophrenic son,' we'll say 'That's a schizophrenia family.' " Advocates for the handicapped fear that in the future the physically afflicted may no longer be seen as unfortunates worthy of special treatment, but as "wrongful births," genetic errors committed by parents who failed to take proper action against a defective gene...