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Ronald M Green

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PubMed2005

Spy versus spy.

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Diagnostic Techniques, Neurological↗
PubMed2005

Last word: imagining the future.

H.G. Wells warned, in 1895, not to allow economic injustices to become so acute that they ultimately transform human biology. Wells's warning is all the more pertinent today as society contemplates the use of biotechnologies to manipulate or "enhance" the human genome.

Cooperative Behavior↗
PubMed2004

Bad "Science".

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Bioethical Issues↗
PubMed2002

Attitudes on access to services at assisted reproductive technology clinics: comparisons with clinic policy.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the opinions of assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinic directors on access-to-services issues and to compare these opinions with policy at ART clinics. DESIGN: Survey sent to ART clinic directors. SETTING: Academic medical center, university-based ethics institute. PATIENT(S): None. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Assisted reproductive technology directors' opinions about access to services are related to specific clinic policies. Access issues examined include patient attributes (marital status, age, sexual preference), patient behaviors (substance abuse, psychiatric history, child abuse), number of cycles, and types of procedures offered (surrogacy, cloning, ova cryopreservation, ART for HIV-positive individuals). RESULT(S): Provider opinion was more restrictive than clinic policy in 19 of 20 categories measured. The largest difference between opinion and policy was seen on the question of setting restrictions as to age of the male partner. About 20% of directors think that surrogacy for convenience should be allowed: about 10% of directors think cloning of human beings should be offered. CONCLUSION(S): The opinions of ART directors on access to services are more conservative than clinic policies. Contributing factors may include respect for patient autonomy; fear of litigation; policy that reflects a continuum of beliefs among providers; and economic pressure to offer a broad range of procedures.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2002

Benefiting from 'evil': an incipient moral problem in human stem cell research.

When does benefiting from others' wrongdoing effectively make one a moral accomplice in their evil deeds? If stem cell research lives up to its therapeutic promise, this question (which has previously cropped up in debates over fetal tissue research or the use of Nazi research data) is likely to become a central one for opponents of embryo destruction. I argue that benefiting from wrongdoing is prima facie morally wrong under any of three conditions: (1) when the wrongdoing is one's agent; (2) when acceptance of benefit directly encourages the repetition of the wrongful deed (even though no agency relationship is involved); and (3) when acceptance of a benefit legitimates a wrongful practice. I conclude by showing that, because of the ways in which most embryonic stem cell lines come into being, people who oppose embryo destruction may use human embryonic stem cells without incurring moral blame.

Biomedical Research↗
PubMed2002

Stem cell research: a target article collection: Part III--determining moral status.

In this chapter, I review some of the background thinking concerning matters of moral status that I had developed in previous years and that I would now bring to the work of the Human Embryo Research Panel. Two ideas were at the forefront of my thinking. First, that biology usually offers not decisive "events" but only continuous processes of development. Second, in making status determinations we do not so much "identify" a point on a developmental continuum where moral respect should be accorded as "choose" that point. These choices are "balancing decisions" in which the community of moral agents weighs its interests in protecting an entity against the burdens of doing so. After illustrating these two contentions, I consider some of the reasons why thinkers on the "right" and "left" of our bioethics debates have resisted or missed this basic insight.

Abortion, Induced↗