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Thomas H. Murray is Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director
of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine, a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission. Dr. Murray is founding Editor of Medical
Humanities Review, on the editorial board of Human
Gene Therapy and The Physician and Sportsmedicine.
He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Environmental
Health Institute. He is a member of the USOC's Sports Medicine Committee
and of the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society
for Human Genetics, and of the ethics Committee of HUGO, the Human
Genome Organization. He is Chair of the Task Force on Genetics and
Insurance of the NIH Center for Human Genome Research.
Murray earned his B.A. at Temple University in psychology and Ph.D.
in social psychology from Princeton University. His research focuses
on ethics in medicine and science, including ethics aspects of health
policy; the care of newborns and children, occupational health,
and genetic engineering.
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Ethics and Genetics: Issues
at the Frontiers
of Science and Technology
October 14-18, 1998
at the University of Oklahoma
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This seminar explored a variety of ethical issues raised by
advances in genetics and biotechnology. Participants examined
the values that characterize the practice of science, as well
as the value of science to society. They looked at the Human
Genome Project: the hopes it has inspired, the fears it has
generated, and the reality. Genetic discrimination and genetic
privacy are concerns raised by the rapid development of new
methods for obtaining genetic information about persons. Participants
attempted to assess whether such threats are realistic, and
what ethics, especially justice, requires us to do in response.
Genetic enhancement is an intriguing possibility that until
very recently was solely the province of science fiction. The
possibility that genetic enhancement will be possible in the
near future is no longer far-fetched. Participants considered
the ethics of enhancement. Finally, participants considered
cloning, including the possibility of attempting to clone a
human being.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
The Ethical Dimensions of the Biological Sciences,
Cambridge University Press, NY, 1993.
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis, Robert
Proctor, Harvard University Press, 1988.
Cloning Human Beings, Vol. 1, National Bioethics
Advisory Commission.
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