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Global State of Stem Cells and Cloning in Science, Ethics, and Law
Monday, March 7 - Tuesday, March 8, 2005

The Ethics and Public Policy Center was pleased to cosponsor a major conference in Rome on stem cells: the ethical issues, the scientific options, the international perspective, and the theological debate.

The Bioethics Debate and the American Character
A Lecture by Eric Cohen, with comments from Leon Kass
Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Embryonic stem cells and human cloning have emerged as defining issues in American public life. But why? Is there a divide between religion and science? Are opponents of embryo research "rational"? Do supporters of embryo research believe in equality? What will America be like if embryo research becomes a regular part of American medicine? Eric Cohen and Leon Kass explored the principles behind the American bioethics debate.

Embryo Research and the American Character
Thursday, May 1, 2003

Over the past few years, a great debate has begun about the beginning of life and the ends of medicine. The debate has often overlapped with the deep divide over abortion rights, but it is becoming clear that the ethics and politics of embryo research present new challenges and new problems.

Biotechnology and the Remaking of Parenthood
Tuesday, March 11, 2003

In the third lecture in our series on technology and society, Amy Laura Hall will consider the transforming effect of new reproductive technologies on our ideas of parenthood and childhood.

Technology and Political Responsibility
Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Is modern technology a burden or a blessing? A political dream or a moral and political nightmare? How will different technologies-biochemical and genetic manipulation, weapons of mass destruction, and human cloning-shape our political debates and way of life in the years and decades ahead? What does a responsible politics of technology look like-one that is true to America�s place in the world and to the principles of liberal democracy?


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The New Atlantis (Winter 2008)

The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society

The New Atlantis is an effort to clarify the nation's moral and political understanding of all areas of technology, with a special emphasis on bioethics. The quarterly journal is an attempt to make sense of the larger questions surrounding technology and human nature, and the practical questions of governing and regulating science -- especially where the moral stakes are high and the political divides are deep.

In the latest issue:

The Editors on John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate.
Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science.”
O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience.
Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science.
Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles.”
Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method.
Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water.
Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates.
James C. Capretta on why health care records are so low-tech.
Caitrin Nicol on predictions of robotic intimacy.
David Franz on the utopian origins of Dilbert's sorkspace.
George Mitchell on drugs in baseball.

... and much more!

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