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Intimations Of Immorality: Clones, Cyrons And The Law, George P. Smith Ii
Intimations Of Immorality: Clones, Cyrons And The Law, George P. Smith Ii
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This article examines some legal and moral issues associated with two developing areas of biomedicine; cloning and cryonics. The author firstly considers the practical benefits to society of developing perfecting and utilizing the process of cloning. These include the ability to overcome inheritable genetic defects and the provision of organs for transplantation. Against this must be weighed some moral and ethical problems of genetic engineering. Professor Smith then discusses the process of deep-freezing a person and the development of cryonics as a social movement. The major legal problem stemming from cryonics is determining the time at which a cryonically suspended …
Intrusions Of A Parvenu: Science, Religion, And The New Biology, George P. Smith Ii
Intrusions Of A Parvenu: Science, Religion, And The New Biology, George P. Smith Ii
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Both religion and the law must seriously consider artificial insemination so that dogma and laws are formed to incorporate the process. Science has brought the procedure to a society unequipped to deal with the religious and legal implications of birth through artificial insemination in any of its forms. Not all religions or jurisdictions can be expected to treat the process exactly alike, but there must be an effort on the part of each organization to react to the situation facing them so that their citizens will have some guidance.
Section II of this article illuminates the path science is on …
The Promise Of Abundant Life: Patenting A Magnificent Obsession, George P. Smith Ii
The Promise Of Abundant Life: Patenting A Magnificent Obsession, George P. Smith Ii
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The purpose of this essay will be to explore the parameters of the scientific imperative to explore truth. The scope of this inquiry is shaped in part by the United States patent laws and administrative interpretations and, more specifically, by the United States Supreme Court in its recent holding allowing the new forms of life created in a laboratory to be patented. The ultimate purpose of this piece, then, is to refute the arrogance of power theory expressed as being implicit in the investigations of the vast potential for the positive achievement of good through harnessing the "New Biology." Thus, …
Dr. Den Besten On Life And Death, James Koldenhoven