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Bioethics NEWS - April 2004

Group to present economic findings
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Research into aging and ethical questions raised by the possibility of humans living far longer will be the topic of a bioethics lecture Tuesday at the Brody ...
Source: Greenville Daily Reflector

Selection of gender a question of ethics
Date: 29 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Earlier this year, the President's Council on Bioethics, made up of scholars and scientists commissioned by President Bush, approved a preliminary report on ...
Source: Fort Wayne News Sentinel

The pursuit of happiness
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Excerpt: The President's Council on Bioethics recently delivered a report called "Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness." The panel defined the ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Tax Dollars Best Invested in Proven Research: Focus on the Family ...
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Excerpt: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 28 /US Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Senior Policy Analyst for Bioethics Carrie Gordon Earll issued the following statement ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release)

BIOLOGICAL TESTAMENT: SIRCHIA, MORE POWER TO BIOETHICS
Date: 27 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...(AGI) - Rome, Apr 27.- The biological testament, approved by the national committee for bioethics must pass the two parliamentary stages but... ...
Source: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

Too many parents and too few
Date: 27 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...destruction. For the last seven years, the Council of Europe has had a protocol to the Convention of Bioethics banning human cloning. ...
Source: Valletta Times

Permanent provost named
Date: 26 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Dr. Larry Palmer, an endowed chair at the Institute for Bioethics, Health and Law, was the other candidate considered for the position. ...
Source: Louisville Cardinal

Youth perspective new at third bioethics forum
Date: 23 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...works from high school, so I'll explain," the WiCell Research Institute fellow said Thursday at the third annual International Bioethics Forum here. ...
Source: The Capital Times

New Study Investigates Use of PGD's Role in Reducing Multiple ...
Date: 22 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Expected to Advance Recent Findings Reported in New England Journal of Medicine, Study Supports Guidelines Recommended by President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Bioethics Issues Prominent at BIO 2004 in San Francisco
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: At the same time, the introduction of any new technology sparks new debates about its ethical and social implications. "Bioethics is a topic for the ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Bioethics Issues Prominent at BIO 2004 in San Francisco
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ..."Bioethics is a topic for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) every day of the year and one that we ... Among the bioethics sessions that are planned:
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Bioethics chief Kass proffers ethical food for thought
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Kass, the controversial chairman of President Bush's Commission on Bioethics, was disputing the claim made by advocates of cloning for medical research that ...
Source: Pasadena Star-News

Varsities sign MoU for research on bioethics
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Madras and Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take up educational programmes and research on bioethics ...
Source: News Today

Bioethics Council Chairman Speaks With FRC About Troubling Report
Date: 19 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Today Family Research Council (FRC) is publishing on its website a short "Q&A" with Dr. Leon Kass, who chairs the President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Bioethics Council Chairman Speaks With FRC About Troubling Report
Date: 19 Apr 2004
Excerpt: In an Interview With FRC, Chairman Leon Kass Clears up Confusion Over Recent Bioethics Report WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Family Research ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Established in 1844: America's Oldest Catholic Newspaper In ...
Date: 15 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Dr. John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston, is set to speak at 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 21, at the St. ...
Source: Pittsburgh Catholic

Annual Bioethics Forum to explore genetic testing
Date: 14 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...of new abilities to conduct genetic tests for disease and predisposition to disease will be the focus of the Third Annual International Bioethics Forum on ...
Source: Wisconsin Technology Network

Being Human
Date: 12 Apr 2004
Excerpt: But deeper issues roam just beyond The Land of the Obvious, and the two-year-old President's Council on Bioethics is charged with visiting them. ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Bioethics council reaches consensus on assisted reproduction
Date: 11 Apr 2004
Excerpt: The President's Council on Bioethics has released a consensus report on reproductive technology that calls for federally funded research, more self-regulation ...
Source: American Medical News

Live Sage Crossroads Interview With Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of ...
Date: 8 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Join us on http://www.sagecrossroads.net for a live, one- on-one webcast with Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, to discuss the ...
Source: PRNewswire (press release)

The doctors of myth and fantasy meet bioethics
Date: 7 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Nowhere is this more obvious than in the debates undertaken by the President's Council on Bioethics, which confront the changes in the biological revolution by ...
Source: Town Hall

'Designer Children' Experiments Dehumanizing, Says Center for ...
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: John Kilner, president of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and recently returned from a meeting in South Korea with cloning and embryonic stem cell ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release)

President's Bioethics Chairman Charges Recent Report was Misused
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: Critics charge that some members of the President's Council on Bioethics, along with their allies in the media, have misrepresented the most recent Council ...
Source: Michnews.com

'Research' can panic, not help, public
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: BY ARTHUR CAPLAN. Arthur Caplan is chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Source: Newsday

Babies Born to Be Donors Raise Concerns
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: Valparaiso University professor Gilbert Meilaender, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, called the practice "morally troubling.". ...
Source: Los Angeles Times (subscription)

Swaminathan panel flayed for ambiguity
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: Like Dr Sahai, she also suggested instituting of a National Bioethics Commission to steward the technology with responsibility and sensitivity. ...
Source: The Hindu

Yomiuri proposal gets praise
Date: 05 May 2004
Excerpt: In addition, it relates to bioethics as well as such newly emerging concepts of human rights as those relating to information and intellectual property, so I ...
Source: Daily Yomiuri

Central Exchange recognizes Pletz
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: City, Community Health Group, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City Public Television, Central Bank, Rockhurst University, Midwest Bioethics Center, Kansas ...
Source: Kansas City Star (subscription)

US News ranks 3 DePaul grad programs in top 10
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: ...competitive students with paid work experience at the AMA after their first year of law school and the Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics, which serves ...
Source: Chicago Sun Times

Euthanasia Campaigner Jailed for Attempted Murder
Date: 4 May 2004
Excerpt: Michael McCabe, the director of a Catholic bioethics organization in Wellington called the Nathaniel Center said Monday the Martin case certainly did not ...
Source: Cybercast News Service

US Catholic Leaders Refuse Explicit Papal Directive on Nutrition ...
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: The reaction of some prominent Catholic ethicists has been a reflection of the divide in medical ethics between the teaching of the Church and modern bioethics ...
Source: Lifesite

Genetic Testing of Embryos to Pick 'Savior Sibling' Okay with ...
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: The Genetics and Public Policy Center is a part of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at The Johns Hopkins University and is funded by The Pew Charitable ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release)

COMMUNITY NEWS 5/3/04
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: Research into aging and ethical questions raised by the possibility of humans living far longer will be the topic of a bioethics lecture Tuesday at the ...
Source: Greenville Daily Reflector

Biotech Firms Seek Big Bucks for Human Cloning, Embryonic ...
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. ...
Source: LifeNews.com

Handy Sandy
Date: 3 May 2004
Excerpt: Commission. He is a professor at Edinburgh University. He is a member of the International Bioethics Commission of Unesco. He helped ...
Source: Guardian

Reproductive medicine guidelines called effective
Date: 2 May 2004
Excerpt: On the heels of a report from the President's Council on Bioethics calling for more self-regulation in the medical field of assisted reproduction, a study ...
Source: American Medical News

The greatest gift: living organ donations
Date: 2 May 2004
Excerpt: It changes the whole ethical equation," said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. ...
Source: Seattle Times

Surgeon will recount rise from ghettos
Date: 2 May 2004
Excerpt: In 2002, he was named to a White House bioethics panel. "There is no such thing as a problem-free life," Carson said last week in a telephone interview. ...
Source: Kansas.com

Group to present economic findings
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Research into aging and ethical questions raised by the possibility of humans living far longer will be the topic of a bioethics lecture Tuesday at the Brody ...
Source: Greenville Daily Reflector

Court halts effort to let infant die
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...`(Feeding tubes) are machines as well,'' said Botkin, who chairs the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics. ...
Source: Akron Beacon Journal (subscription)

Selection of gender a question of ethics
Date: 29 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Earlier this year, the President's Council on Bioethics, made up of scholars and scientists commissioned by President Bush, approved a preliminary report on ...
Source: Fort Wayne News Sentinel

The pursuit of happiness
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Excerpt: The President's Council on Bioethics recently delivered a report called "Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness." The panel defined the ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Tax Dollars Best Invested in Proven Research: Focus on the Family ...
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Excerpt: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 28 /US Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Senior Policy Analyst for Bioethics Carrie Gordon Earll issued the following statement ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release)

BIOLOGICAL TESTAMENT: SIRCHIA, MORE POWER TO BIOETHICS
Date: 27 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...(AGI) - Rome, Apr 27.- The biological testament, approved by the national committee for bioethics must pass the two parliamentary stages but... ...
Source: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

Fatherless Mice Muddy the Water
Date: 27 Apr 2004
Excerpt: According to the President's Council on Bioethics (an advisory team Bush formed the same day) report "Monitoring Stem Cell Research" (PDF): "The current policy ...
Source: Wired News

Youth perspective new at third bioethics forum
Date: 23 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...works from high school, so I'll explain," the WiCell Research Institute fellow said Thursday at the third annual International Bioethics Forum here. ...
Source: The Capital Times

New Study Investigates Use of PGD's Role in Reducing Multiple ...
Date: 22 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Expected to Advance Recent Findings Reported in New England Journal of Medicine, Study Supports Guidelines Recommended by President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: Business Wire (press release)

Bioethics Issues Prominent at BIO 2004 in San Francisco
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: At the same time, the introduction of any new technology sparks new debates about its ethical and social implications. "Bioethics is a topic for the ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Bioethics Issues Prominent at BIO 2004 in San Francisco
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ..."Bioethics is a topic for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) every day of the year and one that we ... Among the bioethics sessions that are planned:
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Bioethics chief Kass proffers ethical food for thought
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Kass, the controversial chairman of President Bush's Commission on Bioethics, was disputing the claim made by advocates of cloning for medical research that ...
Source: Pasadena Star-News

Varsities sign MoU for research on bioethics
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Madras and Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take up educational programmes and research on bioethics ...
Source: News Today

Bioethics Council Chairman Speaks With FRC About Troubling Report
Date: 19 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Today Family Research Council (FRC) is publishing on its website a short "Q&A" with Dr. Leon Kass, who chairs the President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Bioethics Council Chairman Speaks With FRC About Troubling Report
Date: 19 Apr 2004
Excerpt: In an Interview With FRC, Chairman Leon Kass Clears up Confusion Over Recent Bioethics Report WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Family Research ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Annual Bioethics Forum to explore genetic testing
Date: 14 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...of new abilities to conduct genetic tests for disease and predisposition to disease will be the focus of the Third Annual International Bioethics Forum on ...
Source: Wisconsin Technology Network

Bioethics council reaches consensus on assisted reproduction
Date: 11 Apr 2004
Excerpt: The President's Council on Bioethics has released a consensus report on reproductive technology that calls for federally funded research, more self-regulation ...
Source: American Medical News

The doctors of myth and fantasy meet bioethics
Date: 7 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Nowhere is this more obvious than in the debates undertaken by the President's Council on Bioethics, which confront the changes in the biological revolution by ...
Source: Town Hall

The Ethics of Bioethics
Date: 6 Apr 2004
Excerpt: There seems to be a single question driving bioethics today, a question that never considers alternatives, never doubts whether or not to proceed with medical ...
Source: Dissident Voice

Bioethics and reproduction
Date: 3 Apr 2004
Excerpt: The latest report by the President's Council on Bioethics, ''Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies," is an important addition ...
Source: Washington Times

Bioethics panel urges restraints on assisted fertility
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: By ELIZABETH OLSON. ARLINGTON, Va. -- Bioethics advisers to President Bush released a report yesterday that urged restraints on the largely unregulated in vitro ...
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

Bioethics Panel Nudges Lawmakers
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: President Bush's Council on Bioethics released a report Thursday on reproductive biotechnologies that could finally push the US government to an agreement on ...
Source: Wired News

Bioethics Panel's Report Disappointing
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: They say the President's Council on Bioethics made some important recommendations, but also opened the door to future problems. ...
Source: Family News In Focus

President Bush's Bioethics Council Releases Assisted Fertility ...
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A landmark report issued by the President's Bioethics Council has raised new questions about the regulation of potentially life ...
Source: LifeNews.com

Bioethics council criticized over ‘ moral status of the human ...
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: WASHINGTON (BP)--The President’s Council on Bioethics produced in many ways a commendable report April 1 on reproductive technologies but failed grievously ...
Source: BP News

The Politics of Bioethics
Date: 2 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...by Gilbert Meilaender. AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, the White House announced changes in the membership of the President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: The Weekly Standard (subscription)

Bioethics Panel Recommends Limits on Assisted Fertility
Date: 1 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ARLINGTON, Va., April 1 Bioethics advisers to President Bush released a report on Thursday that urged restraints on the largely unregulated test-tube baby ...
Source: New York Times

Bioethics Panel Recommends Limits on Assisted Fertility
Date: 1 Apr 2004
Excerpt: RLINGTON, Va., April 1 — Bioethics advisers to President Bush released a report on Thursday that urged restraints on the largely unregulated test-tube baby ...
Source: New York Times

Bioethics council seeks ban on some embryo experiments
Date: 1 Apr 2004
Excerpt: ...cloning for research and quickly ban other embryo experiments that virtually everyone deems unethical, President Bush's Council on Bioethics said Thursday. ...
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)

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Bioethics from Wikipedia


Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help or harm organisms capable of feeling fear and pain.

Bioethics involves many public policy questions that are often politicized- used to mobilize political constituencies. For this reason, some biologists and others involved in the development of technology have come to see any mention of "bioethics" as an attempt to derail their work and react to it as such, regardless of the true intent. Transhumanist biologists in particular can be prone to this misunderstanding, as they see their work as inherently ethical, and attacks on it as misguided.

Issues

Bioethics issues include:
  • Abortion, reproductive rights
  • Artificial insemination
  • Artificial life
  • Biopiracy
  • Circumcision
  • Confidentiality of medical records and their abuse in interrogation of prisoners
  • Contraception
  • Cloning
  • Cryogenics
  • Direct mind-computer interface
  • Donating one's sperm or eggs
  • Donated organs when bought illegally (transplant trade)
  • Eugenics
  • Fair allocation of donated organs, class and race biases
  • Drug pricing, HIV/AIDs drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Genetic engineering, genetically modified food crops
  • Genomics
  • Homosexuality
  • Human cloning
  • Medical torture
  • Non-human animal cloning
  • Immortality
  • Treating infertility
  • Obligations of the individual, corporate employer, local, sub-national or national state and global community to provide health care and/or health insurance.
  • Primate rights under law
  • Stem cell cloning
  • Suicide, assisted suicide and human euthanasia
  • Non-human animal euthanasia
  • Pain management
  • Parthenogenesis
  • Population control
  • Recreational drug use
  • Reprogenetics
  • Scientific ignorance
  • Selling one's own blood or blood plasma
  • Spiritual drug use
  • Transhumanism
  • Transexuality
  • When to use, and when to withhold, life-support
  • When to use, and when to withhold, artificial hydration and artificial nutrition
  • Use of surrogate mothers
  • Use of nanotechnology as medical treatment
  • Use of artificial wombs
  • Treating non-human animals
  • Medical research on non-human animals
      Bioethicists focus on using philosophy to help analyze said concerns, though bioethics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary.

      Religious bioethicists have developed rules and guidelines on how to deal with these issues from within the viewpoint of their respective faiths. Some secular bioethicists are critical of the fact that these are usually religious scholars without an academic degree or training in disciplines that pertain to the issues, such as philosophy (wherein the study of ethics is usually found), biology or medicine.

      Most religious bioethicists are Jewish or Christian scholars. However a small number of religious scholars from other religions have recently become involved in this field as well. Islamic clerics have begun to write on this topic. Muslim bioethicists include Abdulaziz Sachedina, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. There has been some criticism by liberal Muslims that only the more religiously conservative voices in Islam are being heard on this issue. Buddhist bioethicists have focused much of their concern on organ transplantation.



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