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Albany Law Review archives from March 2002
Stem cells from a biological perspective: what they are, where they are found, and what can be done with them.
March 22, 2002... Cells are the smallest living units of living systems. They can respire, respond, and reproduce. A single human cell, however, or even a conglomerate of human cells, does not a human being make. In fact, the human body is made up of trillions...
Embryonic stem cell research and respect for human life: philosophical and legal reflections.
March 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION
Less than twenty-five years ago, bioethics was considered a somewhat arcane discipline. In 1978, the late Paul Ramsey, a noted Protestant ethicist, published a book entitled Ethics at the Edges of Life: Medical and Legal...
Human cloning and the right to reproduce.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Since the birth of "Dolly the sheep" in July 1996, (1) cloning via the nuclear transfer of differentiated cells (2) has been successfully expanded to numerous and varied animal species, (3) including pigs, (4) mice, (5) goats,...
Human cloning and genetic engineering: the case for proceeding cautiously.
March 22, 2002... The irony inherent in the debate on "whole human" reproductive cloning is the amount that has been written and the emotions that have been stirred regarding a scientific advance that has not yet occurred (1) and that, at present, is only a...
Biotech and theodicy: what can and what ought we to do in procreative technology?
March 22, 2002... Part I of this article deals with some theoretical issues concerning the way our culture arrives at moral judgments and the way the law functions relative to public moral concerns. I will illustrate my points with reference to, and through...
The ethics weave in human genomics, embryonic stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning: promoting and protecting society's interests.
March 22, 2002... This essay discusses a value-based connection between the emerging technologies of human genomics, embryonic stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning. The analysis presents what is described as an "ethics weave" to highlight the value-based...
Ethical issues in stem cell research.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Human stem cell research and its possible connection to human cloning (i.e., somatic cell nuclear transfer) has been the subject of much debate recently. Significant confusion exists, however, in the public discourse on this...
"The American breed": Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION
A. The Bell Curve, The Pioneer Fund, and American Eugenics
When The Bell Curve was published in 1994 it was an immediate best seller; more than a million copies are currently in print. The thesis of The Bell Curve, that...
A comparative look at the U.S and British approaches to stem cell research.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION
On August 9, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that federal funding of stem cell research would be limited to research involving those cell lines that had been created prior to the date of his announcement. (1) His...