March 22, 2005
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March 22, 2005
Daedalus and Icarus Revisited
Doubts about the goodness of scientific and technological progress are hardly new, and fears about the dangers of human...
March 22, 2005
Bioethics at the Movies
Whose Life is it Anyway?” Brian Clark’s play of that name about a quadriplegic who wants to die is now over...
December 15, 2004
Science in the Public Square
Years ago, William F. Buckley famously quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston...
December 15, 2004
The Bioethics Agenda and the Bush Second Term
Without question, the biggest bioethics event in the 2004 election was the passage of Proposition 71 in California,...
December 15, 2004
Science and Congress
Adam Keiper on science advice and the legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment
December 15, 2004
The Age of Egocasting
Great inventions usually summon images of their brilliant creators. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin; Alexander Graham...
December 15, 2004
Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man
In July 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized pharmaceutical companies to promote human Growth...
December 15, 2004
Acorns and Embryos
Robert P. George and Patrick Lee on moral standing and bad metaphors
December 15, 2004
The Tragedy of Equality
In a recent issue of Stanford Medicine, there is a cartoon with two individuals on different sides of a precipice: one...