a View from the Trenches Leon Kass’s, Reflections on Public Bioethics: a View from the Trenches, discusses the Council’s goals and mission, its influence on the public and political debates, and an evaluation of the processes and conclusions the Council faced when producing the five major works in its first term. Kass describes his three …
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Apr 03
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics – Jennie Lee
In Human Cloning and Human Dignity, Leon Kass discusses the two main purposes of human cloning: cloning to produce children, and cloning for biomedical research. Cloning to produce children (reproductive cloning) is defined as “production of a cloned human embryo, formed for the purpose of initiating a pregnancy, with the (ultimate) goal of producing a …
Mar 25
Bridging the Gap Between Local Moral Experience and Global Discourse – Sofia Seewald
“Moral Experience and Ethical Reflection: Can Ethnography Reconcile Them? A Quandary for ‘The New Bioethics,’” written by American psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman in 1999 argues that with increasing globalization, a widening income gap, and modernization of our world, the “universal” principles of bioethics no longer represent local moral experience. In bioethics discourse, Kleinman …
Feb 13
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
This week’s content in both, Rayna Rapp’s Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America and The Burden of Knowledge: Moral Dilemmas in Prenatal Testing, was abundant in the discussion of the ethical, cultural, economic, and religious influences surrounding prenatal technologies (e.g. amniocentesis). In Rapp’s book, she dives into a plethora …
Jan 30
Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Susan Kahn’s “Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel”brings together multiple ethnographical accounts to paint the reality of reproductive technology in Israel. The overwhelming acceptance of assisted fertility technology in such a place requires a deeper analysis behind such motivations of acceptance. In the introduction Kahn lays out an important undertone felt …
Jan 23
Interpretations of Biblical Text and the Implications for Reproductive Technology
It is no surprise that different religions would have a say on reproductive technologies. Many religions have principles and values that stem from important scriptures or oral law, and these principles and values are typically used to determine the morality of scientific inventions. The readings for this week focus on what different religions, particularly Judaism …
Jan 18
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