Arthur Caplan
Arthur Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. He is the founding director of NYULMC's Division of Medical Ethics. According to Google Scholar, his published books and articles have resulted in an H-index of 47 and an I10-index of 87, since 2009...
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There isn't much input from the public. I think there should be.
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There's really a very small amount of research going on now, but it is increasing and will continue to grow.
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Privacy drives the concern about these databases. People are fearful that information about genetics could be used against them. The very things that make a population good to study also make it tricky.
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I don't think it's unethical to have a wife volunteer to have a piece of her liver given to her child or her husband. I think it's even ethical to do for friends.
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Basically, you shouldn't be sending out anything until you have that letter in hand.
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Should we give away refrigerators? Sure. Trips? Yeah. Fur coats? Who cares. But when we turn the quest for medical care into Queen for a Day, we have gone too far -- ethically. A show that gives out good medicine as a prize is immoral.
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It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body.
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It seems to me the number one vaccine policy question has as much to do with ethics as science.
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It was really a bone thrown out to conservatives who knew exactly what he meant. What they are concerned about is embryo destruction, as if the embryo is a person.
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It's hard for me to imagine it going forward the way it is, given the complete discrediting of a purported partner.
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[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.
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A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.
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Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.
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Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans.