Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
[Video featuring CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] Center for American Progress January 7th, 2010
A special presentation sponsored by the Center for American Progress
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
January 7, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
President Obama pledged in his inaugural address to "restore science
to its rightful place." He followed this up with a presidential
memorandum of scientific integrity to accompany his executive order
restoring funding for embryonic stem cell research. On November 24,
another executive order established the Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues, and just days ago, the NIH announced the
approval of 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines for federally funded
research.
After more than a decade of conservatives'
dominance of public bioethical debate, progressive bioethics is finally
in ascendance. Editors Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger map this new
landscape with Progress in Bioethics, an anthology featuring
contributions from progressive and nonprogressive bioethicists alike.
They tackle substantive policy issues such as stem cell research,
conscience clauses, and health care reform. More generally, they
discuss the meaning of progressive bioethics, its place in the
political arena, its stance toward biotechnology, and its interplay
with religion. And most importantly, they seek to apply the fundamental
progressive values of social justice, critical optimism, and practical
problem solving-values that are needed now more than ever to restore
ideological balance to the politics and policy of the life sciences.
Please join CAP and Democracy: a Journal of Ideas
for a lively panel discussion led by Jonathan Moreno, Senior Fellow at
CAP, Editor-In-Chief of Science Progress, and co-editor of Progress in Bioethics.
Featured panelists:
Sam Berger, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; Co-Editor, Progress in Bioethics
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