Ethics & Medicine

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age Bill McKibben New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003 ISBN 0-8050-7096-6, 299 pp., hardcover, $25Is human society in the 21st century marching inevitably toward using every new technology that comes along, including...

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATENanotechnology, the science of manipulating materials at the molecular level, has come into the spotlight recently as the next wave in biotechnology. The term itself comes from a nanometer, 1 billionth of a meter, and potential nanotech...

Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? Norman Daniels and James E. Sabin New York, NY: Oxford University Press-USA, 2002 ISBN 0-19-514936-X, 208 pp., hardcover, $34.50, L22.95This book addresses the vexed, much-debated, and increasingly...

Generating business is, obviously, the raison d'etre of advertising. Its core concept is to present a new or renewed product in order to gain a market position or to maintain that of a product already launched. Advertising rests on the assumption, then,...

Utopianism-the idea that we can enjoy a perfect society of perfect people on a perfect earth-is not new at all. Novelists, playwrights, social engineers, and media moguls have played with the idea for millennia. The new Utopians, however, are a breed...

Why Bother Being Good?: The Place of God in the Moral Life John Hare Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8308-2683-1, 216 pp., paperback, $15.00John Hare believes that one must have certain Christian beliefs for morality to make...