book reviews problems generated by the use of research methods that raise serious moral
questions. Callahan also goes through the stages of how the integrity of science was …

Secular arguments have also cast doubt on the moral justifiability of destroying embryos for
research. After an elegant repudiation of the moral convincibility of arguments both for and …

Throughout history, but particularly over the course of recent years, advances in the
biomedical sciences have granted humankind an ever-greater understanding and mastery …

WHEN DR. LEON KASS ACCEPTED the appointment as chair of the Presi-dent's Council on
Bioethics, he recognized that President Bush and most members of Congress had probably …

The ideology of evidence-base medicine (EBM) has dramatically altered the way we think,
conceptualize, philosophize and practice medicine. One of its major pillars is the appraisal …

Ronald M. Green is one of the foremost apologists for the federal funding of human embryo
research and so-called therapeutic cloning. This book is based on his experiences as a …

September-October 2002 ful killing, including Native American hunting rituals. Yet if the
parallel here is closer to animal research, the logic of so-cial utility would seem, in principle …

The appearance of cloning and embryonic stem cell research poses serious challenges to
those who defend human life from the moment of fertilization onward. The scientific and …

Abstract" This inquiry suggests a new epistemological foundation for understanding and
discernment in biomedical ethics. This foundation, based on Aristotle's phronesis or practical …

RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF ETHICS in medicine have con-cerned themselves with large
problems in the care of the dying, transplantation, abortiOn,-genetic manipulation, behavior …