Sunday, December 1, 2013

ETHICS and SCIENCE : It's time to question bio-engineering - do you know what scientists are doing today? Designing new animals in the lab

I had a strong negative reaction when I watched this video the first time. It was a combination of sense perception and  emotion as ways of knowing that made me feel uncomfortable with the images and some of the ideas in the presentation. So what if some scientists start doing this with human beings?  - from Mr C

TED LECTURE - WHO IS THE PRESENTER?

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics
Director, Center for Ethics
Emory University.

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Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University.  Dr. Wolpe also serves as the first Senior Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he is responsible for formulating policy on bioethical issues and safeguarding research subjects. He is Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), the premier scholarly journal in bioethics, and Editor of AJOB Neuroscience, and sits on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics. Dr Wolpe is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society; a Fellow of the Hastings Center, the oldest bioethics institute in America; and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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