At this conference we have discussed the science and medicine of in vitro fertilization, and
recorded the considerable advances in our understanding of human conception and its …

From the beginning, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been cloaked in sensation and
controversy. Certainly Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe endured much criticism for their …

The development of ethical debate on reproductive interventions rests on two propositions.
The first is that we cannot assume that completely uninhibited research on human gametes …

Early in 1969, Edwards, Bavister and Steptoe'published a short paper in Nature describing
the fertilization in vitro of human oocytes which was supported by indisputable scientific …

and how should it be defined? by CHARLES B. MOORE iomedical ethics, as a separate field
with many adherents from both theology and philosophy, has only in recent years been …

The revolution in medicine and biology that is taking place today has often been compared
in importance with the revolution in physics that produced the atomic bomb. Of course, if we …

The American research enterprise grew rapidly after World War II. The increased
government and private funding of scientific research led to increased numbers of scientists …

Much of my work in bioethics over the years has been throwing off ethics as pursued in the
analytical tradition. I believe the field should steer clear of the rigid style of hyper-rationalist …

What factors might account for the extraordinary worldwide interest in the new reproductive
technologies during the past decade? The answer must of necessity be impressionistic …

I should note at the outset that an early version of this book was published several years ago
in Mandarin Chinese. 1 The reason for this is that a good friend, Chen-yun Tsai, Professor of …