The promise of genetic science, particularly human genetic engineering, appeals to that in
humans which strives for perfectionperfection in oneself, one's life, one's children. Genetic …

On April 25th of this year [2003], we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the elucidation of
the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick, an accomplishment of which we are all extremely …

About a decade ago, President William Clinton said that the next half century will be the age
of biology, and, that the engine of that age is genetics. Partly because of the Human …

In contemplating the technologies emerging from the Human Genome Project, nothing
scares people more than the prospect that we will attempt to use genetic engineering to …

This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000,
was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the …

As a result of the publicly funded Human Genome Project (HGP), and an increasing number
of private enterprises, a new form of eugenic theory and practice has emerged, differing from …

Since the beginning of civilization, philosophers and scientists alike have contemplated
methods of improving mankind. As far back as the fourth century BCE, Plato, in The …

Eugenics casts a long shadow over contemporary genetics. Any measure, whether in
clinical genetics or biotechnology, which is suspected of eugenic intent is likely to be …

While the collapse of the Soviet Union has diminished the force of George Orwell's 1984, the
other great dystopian tract of the twentieth century, Alduous Huxley's Brave New World, is …

IN THIS ESSAY, Iwill CONSIDER the ethics of reproductive and therapeutic cloning. But I
want also to advance a more general claim: that the cloning issue, and related debates …