Frederick Adams, Editor
 
Biotechnology will allow modification of animals, food, the environment, and even the genetic essence of human beings. Serious ethical considerations apply to every kind of application of this new technology. This volume is a collection of invited papers that explore topics in these areas. They represent the best work presented at a conference held at the University of Delaware in the Fall of 2004, under the joint sponsorship of the University of Delaware and the American Philosophical Association. The topics discussed include the moral treatment of animals, ethical issues related to the environment, ethical issues related to food, and ethical issues for human health. Ethics and the Life Sciences has been published in cooperation with the Journal of Philosophical Research in an effort to advance the discussion of ethical issues of concern to all citizen of the global community.
 
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Table of Contents

• Preface

• THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

Catherine M. Klein, Creation and the Use of Transgenic Animals in Pharmaceutical Research: Animal Welfare and Ethical Concerns
Roger Wertheimer, The Relevance of Speciesism to Life Sciences Practices David Detmer, Vegetarianism, Traditional Morality, and Moral Conservatism
Nathan Nobis, A Rational Defense of Animal Experimentation
Robert Streiffer, At the Edge of Humanity: Human Stem Cells, Chimeras, and Moral Status

• ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT

Steve Vanderheiden, Climate Change and the Challenge of Moral Responsibility
Gerald J. Kauffman, Perspectives on Ethics and Water Policy in Delaware

• ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO FOOD

Matthew Lister, Well-ordered Science: The Case of GM Crops
Jennifer Welchman, Frankenfood, or, Fear and Loathing at the Grocery Store
J. Robert Loftis, The Other Value in the Debate over Genetically Modified Organisms
Whiton S. Paine and Mary Lou Galantino, Biomarketing Ethics, Functional Foods, Health, and Minors
David Kaplan, What’s Wrong with Functional Foods?
Dane Scott, The Magic Bullet Criticism of Agricultural Biotechnology
Christina Pina, The Dietary Limitations Imposed by Mexico’s Social Structure

• ETHICAL ISSUES FOR HUMAN HEALTH

Fritz Allhoff, Germ-line Genetic Enhancements and Rawlsian Primary Goods
Fritz Allhoff, Telomers and the Ethics of Human Cloning
Gregor Damschen and Dieter Schönecker, Saving Seven Embryos or Saving One Child? Michael Sandel on the Moral Status of Human Embryos
Katherin A. Rogers, A Clone by any Other Name: The Delaware Cloning Bill as a Model of Misdirection
David K. Chan, Wrongful Life, Wrongful Disability, and the Argument against Cloning
Jakob Elster, Wrongful Life, Suicide, and Euthanasia
Lisa Bellantoni, Are We Good Enough? The Paradox of Genetic Enhancement
Brad F. Mellon, Learning to Cope with Ambiguity: Reflections on the Terri Schiavo Case
Gary Fuller, PVS and the Terri Schiavo Case: A Reply to Brad Mellon
Alexander R. Cohen, Truly Human Reproduction
Peter Danielson, Rana Ahmad, Zosia Bornik, Hadi Dowlatabadi, and Edwin Levy, Deep, Cheap, and Improvable: Dynamic Democratic Norms and the Ethics of Biotechnology
Kristin Lefebvre, An Ethical Evaluation of the Supreme Court Decision Regarding ERISA Interpretation
Dale Murray and Heather Certain, Pharmaceutical “Gift-Giving,” Medical Education, and Conflict of Interest
Neil A. Manson, Why Shouldn’t Insurance Companies Know Your Genetic Information?