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Queer Science: The Use And Abuse Of Research Into Homosexuality, Charles Weijer Oct 1996

Queer Science: The Use And Abuse Of Research Into Homosexuality, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996 Oct 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bioethics: Overview And Context, A Landscape Of Issues, Delmar Vander Zee Sep 1996

Bioethics: Overview And Context, A Landscape Of Issues, Delmar Vander Zee

Pro Rege

This article is based on Dr. Vander Zee's opening presentation at the Dordt College Bioethics Conference held February 19-20, 1996.


Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996 Jul 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Ethical Issues In Research, Charles Weijer Mar 1996

Ethical Issues In Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Feminism, Law, And Bioethics, Karen H. Rothenberg Jan 1996

Feminism, Law, And Bioethics, Karen H. Rothenberg

Faculty Scholarship

Feminist legal theory provides a healthy skepticism toward legal doctrine and insists that we reexamine even formally gender-neutral rules to uncover problematic assumptions behind them. The article first outlines feminist legal theory from the perspectives of liberal, cultural, and radical feminism. Examples of how each theory influences legal practice, case law, and legislation are highlighted. Each perspective is then applied to a contemporary bioethical issue, egg donation. Following a brief discussion of the common themes shared by feminist jurisprudence, the article incorporates a narrative reflecting on the integration of the common feminist themes in the context of the passage of …


Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996 Jan 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Law And Ignorance: Genetic Therapy And The Legal Process, Roger B. Dworkin Jan 1996

Law And Ignorance: Genetic Therapy And The Legal Process, Roger B. Dworkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Choice, Conscience, And Context, Mary Crossley Jan 1996

Choice, Conscience, And Context, Mary Crossley

Articles

Building on Professor Michael H. Shapiro's critique of arguments that some uses of new reproductive technologies devalue and use persons inappropriately (which is part of a Symposium on New Reproductive Technologies), this work considers two specific practices that increasingly are becoming part of the new reproductive landscape: selective reduction of multiple pregnancy and prenatal genetic testing to enable selective abortion. Professor Shapiro does not directly address either practice, but each may raise troubling questions that sound suspiciously like the arguments that Professor Shapiro sought to discredit. The concerns that selective reduction and prenatal genetic screening raise, however, relate not to …


Do The Right Thing, Charles Weijer Dec 1995

Do The Right Thing, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

McGill ethicists help ensure that medical research conforms to the highest scientific and ethical standards.