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| In the Shadow of Progress |
| Eric Cohen on "Being Human in the Age of Technology" |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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| Why are the wealthiest and most comfortable people in human history the least likely to want children? What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain? What |
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| Life and Death -- Principles and Politics |
| A Conversation about Abortion, Bioethics, and American Politics |
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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| In the past three decades, the "life issues" -- abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, and embryo-destroying research -- have reshaped American law, politics, and culture. Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor |
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| Religious and Ethical Perspectives on the End of Life |
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
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| The purpose of the conference is to bring together Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish perspectives on caring for patients who can no longer speak for themselves. |
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| Global State of Stem Cells and Cloning in Science, Ethics, and Law |
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Monday, March 7 - Tuesday, March 8, 2005
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| 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 |
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| The Bioethics Debate and the American Character |
| A Lecture by Eric Cohen, with comments from Leon Kass |
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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| 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"? |
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| Embryo Research and the American Character |
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Thursday, May 1, 2003
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| 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 |
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| Biotechnology and the Remaking of Parenthood |
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
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| 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. |
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| Technology and Political Responsibility |
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
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| 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, |
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| Chinese Bioethics? |
| An East-West Exchange on Eugenics, Euthanasia, and Human Biotechnology |
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
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| As the American debate over the morality of emerging biotechnologies has unfolded, serious questions have been raised concerning the future and scope of human biotechnological advance in China. The |
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| The Bioethics Debate |
| Where we are, Where we're Heading |
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
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| The Project on Biotechnology and American Democracy cordially invites you to a panel discussion on the present and future of the bioethics debate. |
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