Faculty Bibliography

Green is so distracted by the pace of science in genomics, stem cell research, gene therapy, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis that the staggering plight of so many existing children never edges into his analytical field of vision

Caplan talks about the prospect of human cloning, which has now inched very close to becoming a reality. People do not need politicians to panic or religious leaders to decompensate. Instead, they need sound public policies that will prevent the premature use of reproductive cloning, while opening the door to the use of cloning for stem cell research

Caplan comments on the research regarding the ethical controversy of the embryo research. Commentators have warned that this experiment is the first step toward designer babies and eventually the widespread use of genetic engineering of children to achieve eugenic goals. However, doing such experiment should be done with the approval of a governmental regulatory agency that operates in a transparent, public manner

Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology, edited by Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, and John Weckert, is reviewed

An effective treatment for syphilis, penicillin, was well established by the late 1940s, but the notorious Tuskegee study continued for 30 more years fuelled by a powerful current of racism until the whole sordid tale was presented to Congress at a series of hearings held by a young Senator Edward Kennedy, in 1973 And a few see bioethics as having its roots far back in the medical ethics thinking done in earlier centuries by such giants as Robert Koch, Claude Bernard, or Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides). When your specialty is ready for a handbook it has truly arrived. 34 scholars have penned 30 essays on a wide range of subjects-as various as "the rule of double effect", "the ethics of a two-tier health system", "the ethics of enhancement of human beings", and the "politics and policy issues raised by therapeutic cloning"