December 15, 2004
The Age of Egocasting
Great inventions usually summon images of their brilliant creators. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin; Alexander Graham...
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December 15, 2004
Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man
In July 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized pharmaceutical companies to promote human Growth...
December 15, 2004
Acorns and Embryos
Robert P. George and Patrick Lee on moral standing and bad metaphors
December 15, 2004
The Tragedy of Equality
In a recent issue of Stanford Medicine, there is a cartoon with two individuals on different sides of a precipice: one...
December 15, 2004
Human Frailty and Human Dignity
In the aftermath of an election season, with the question of stem cell research in the public eye and demagogued in the...
December 15, 2004
The Crisis of Everyday Life
In bioethics, we must not treat our world as a burning building.
December 15, 2004
In What Sense Equal?
A caricature emerged during the recent presidential campaign — the broadminded, rational pursuit of science versus...
June 22, 2004
The Human Face of Alzheimer’s
The medical, ethical, and personal aspects of living with dementia
June 22, 2004
Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy
Although it is not likely to be as significant as the war in Iraq or the economy for the November 2004 election, the...
June 22, 2004
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
Hell is other people,” Sartre observed, but you need not be a misanthrope or a diminutive French existentialist to...