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May 2010 Bioethics in Brief

May 2010, Volume 12, Issue 2 Precautionary Principles and the Cost of Caution Clark Wolf, Director of Bioethics, Iowa State University She felt terrible, with a horrible pain in her gut that cut like...

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September 2010 Bioethics in Brief

September 2010, Volume 12, No. 2 Agrarianism vs. Sustainable Agriculture Locovore Mathematics? Clark Wolf, Director of Bioethics, Iowa State University In a recent New York Times editorial, Stephen...

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March 2011 Bioethics in Brief

March 2011 Volume 13, No. 1 Anthropomorphism as Vice and Virtue Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics Does your dog look guilty after he misbehaves?   Does your cat lick her fur in...

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February 2012 Bioethics in Brief

February 2012 Volume 14, No. 1 Interpreting the Precautionary Principle Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics A recent article in Natural News reported on a study by Canadian...

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May 2012 Bioethics in Brief

May 2012 Volume 14, No. 2   Sustainable Development of Environmental Resources? Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics In the face of rising energy prices, we often hear calls to...

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January 2013 Bioethics in Brief

January 2013 Volume 15, No. 1 Can Human Genes Be Patented? Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics Genetic discoveries can be valuable. Henrietta Lacks died in 1951, but cells from the...

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May 2013 Bioethics in Brief

Volume 15, No. 2 Science, Law and the Politics of Birth Control Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics A drug called ‘Plan B’ is an emergency contraceptive that can be taken to reduce...

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September 2013 Bioethics in Brief

Volume 15, No. 3 Human Gene Patents at the Supreme Court: Does It Matter if Human Genes Are Patentable Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics In the struggle to distinguish ourselves...

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March 2014 Bioethics in Brief

Volume 16, No. 1 Religion and the Politics of Medical Care Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics “Not with My Money!” Most of the time, when we pay taxes we don’t get to direct the...

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November 2015 Bioethics in Brief

Abortion and Women’s Health at the Supreme Court? Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics Proposals to regulate and limit the use of new technologies and medical procedures are...

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Can and Should Biotechnologists Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?

May 2016 The Woolly Mammoth Reintroduction Case Study Clark Wolf, Iowa State University Director of Bioethics   In the film Jurassic Park, scientists use fictional biotechnology methods to...

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Sustainability and Sustainable Agriculture – May 2017 Bioethics in Brief

Clark Wolf Director of Bioethics, Iowa State University When people speak of sustainable agriculture, they may have quite different ideas in mind. Some people mean local farms, heirloom varieties, and...

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Ethics of Human Germline Genetic Editing

By Clark Wolf, Director of Bioethics, Iowa State University In August 2017, an international research team announced that they had successfully and consistently performed gene editing on human embryos....

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