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...ethicist Sheldon Krimsky of Tufts University points out, Harvard's conflict of interest policy gives little practical guidance to administrators governing research...
...bring some discipline to the currently unregulated field of fertility research. But experiments on embryos raise the same tough question already at the center of the abortion debate: When do life -- and human rights -- begin? "This represents moral terra incognita for us as a society," says James Nelson, an ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. "We have a huge range of definitions of what an embryo is -- anywhere from a person to just a bunch of tissue like any clump in the body...
Adams, a well-known social ethicist, taught at the Divinity School from 1956 to 1968. Harvard awarded him a 350th Anniversary Medal in 1986 for distinguished service to the University...
...felt his pain was not being taken seriously enough. Perhaps the medical team misread the young man's growing determination to choose his own fate. "Often when problems like this arise, there's a miasma of suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment, and the result was the awkward standoff. "That's the most distressing part to us," says Tzakis. "We all have...
...smith, the ethicist with the PoynterCenter, says governing board members are looked onas potential donors at universities everywhere...