Medical ethics-- regeneration, cross-species, cloning
RELATED ISSUES OF ETHICS
• “Arguing about life and the need for death.” Nicholas Wade. New York Times. March 7, 2000. Report on a symposium of scientists, ethicists, and theologians. “Temptations of extending life bring a chorus of warnings.”
• “When pigs fly? Legal and ethical issues in transgenics and the creation of chimeras.” The Walter C. Randall Biomedical Ethics Lecture. Linda MacDonald Glenn. Published in The Physiologist, October 2003. Among many other interesting points raised is a mention of Joseph Fletcher’s (theologian and bioethicist) list of fifteen “positive propositions of personhood.”
• “DNA in transplant patients?” Yahoo Answers. February 2, 2010
• “Designing Life.” On J. Craig Venter. 60 Minutes. Most recently June 12, 2011. See the video link.
• “DIY ‘biopunks’ want science in the hands of people. Garage scientists push cutting edge beyond academic and corporate world.” Elizabeth Weise. USA Today. Suggests that there are people in the biohacker community who may want to create synthetic life, “using off the shelf DNA building blocks to create whatever life-forms the citizen-inventors want . . . ” etc
• “Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough.” Richard Gray. Telegraph. (London). June 19, 2011.
