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16
The President’s Council on Bioethics, Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent
Stem Cells: A White Paper (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2005),
p. 90.
17
The President’s Council on Bioethics, Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation
of New Biotechnologies (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
2004), p. 239. Gazzaniga wrote this in 2004. Perhaps, given what we have since
learned about Korean “advances” in cloning-for-biomedical-research, he would
wish to modify it somewhat.
18
Leon R. Kass, “Human Frailty and Human Dignity,” The New Atlantis 7 (Fall
2004/Winter 2005), p. 116.
19
In what follows immediately, I am relying in considerable measure on O’Donovan,
op. cit., pp. 42-49.
20
Kierkegaard, op. cit., p. 89.
21
O’Donovan, op. cit., p. 44.
22
Kierkegaard, op. cit., pp. 51-52.
23
O’Donovan, op. cit., p. 45.
24
Ibid., p. 48.
25
A wonderful phrase, which I owe to Russell Hittinger. See also Luke 17:7-10.
26
Being Human: Core Readings in the Humanities (New York: Norton, 2004), p.
568; this is a republication of Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council
on Bioethics (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2004).
27
Ibid., p. 567.
28
Ibid., p. 568.
29
Reproduction and Responsibility, p. 11.
30
The President’s Council on Bioethics, Human Cloning and Human Dignity (New
York: Public Affairs, 2002). References will be given by page number in parentheses
within the text.
31
Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 4th
ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 411.
32
See www.bioethics.gov/transcripts/dec05/session5.html.
33
The President’s Council on Bioethics, Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit
of Happiness (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2003). References
will be given by page number in parentheses within the text.
34
Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2001). References will be given
by page number in parentheses within the text.
35
Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (New Haven, Connecticut:
Yale University Press, 1970), p. 36.
36
A point that Ruth Macklin (see note 3 above), despite her call for greater precision
in the use and analysis of concepts, fails to see.