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Compiled by the US President's Council on Bioethics
571 pp, $49.95
Washington, DC, US Independent Agencies  and Commissions, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-1608-0071-9

JAMA. 2008;300(24):2926-2927.

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In November 2001, several months after restricting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to the use of a limited number of preexisting cell lines, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating the President's Council on Bioethics. In creating the council, the president charged its members "to strive to develop a deep and comprehensive understanding of the issues that it considers . . . and may therefore choose to proceed by offering a variety of views on a particular issue, rather than attempt to reach a single consensus position."¹ Human Dignity and Bioethics is an excellent response to that charge and looks deeply into the human and moral significance of new technologies and potential treatments. It also represents a thoughtful response to criticism offered to the first volume to come from the Council, Human Cloning and Human Dignity (July 2002). Critiquing this work, Ruth Macklin targeted her criticism not so much against . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, Reviewer
Leischner Institute for Medical Education
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University Chicago
Maywood, Illinois
msheeh1@lumc.edu

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