Time already (at last?) for our final quartet of bioethical cases and cautions from Glenn McGee. (I look forward to the revised and expanded edition.)
Case 57 prudently cautions against the "Kevorkianization" and "reality TV"-ization of cloning. Glenn says Ian Willmut should not have used that term to designate the procedure of cellular nuclear transfer ("the most revolutionary and complex exercise of human procreative control in history"), should not have named his mammary cell-based sheep "Dolly," and should not have embraced human reproductive cloning just when he did, amidst swirling debates on abortion and stem cells. Evidently he should have consulted a Bioethicist first...
Continues at Up@dawn
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Also of interest:
"Gun Guys" author and Harper's contributor @danielsbaum debates gun control with the NY Times's Joe Nocera: nyti.ms/17jkM1j
Today is the#Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are our resources, including lessons, historical articles http://nyti.ms/ckX69o
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Also of interest:
"Gun Guys" author and Harper's contributor @danielsbaum debates gun control with the NY Times's Joe Nocera: nyti.ms/17jkM1j
The Biomedical Model of Mental Disorder: A Critical Analysis of its Validity, Utility, and Effects on Psychotherapy rss.sciencedirect.com/action/redirec…
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