From: George Dvorsky (sentdev@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 09:19:01 MST
http://www.artbell.com/schedule.html
Host: George Noory
Guest: Art Caplan
Do we own our bodies? Do isolated gene sequences constitute "inventions"
that warrant patent protection? What about cloned organisms, or new
life-forms engineered from preexisting tissue? Do scientists have the right
to claim individual patents on and make profits from the elements of life?
How does the profit motive affect our attitudes toward the value of life?
Will patent protection foster or hinder scientific cooperation and research
into diseases? In short, who owns life? Arthur Caplan is the director of the
Center for Bioethics, chief of the Division of Bioethics at the University
of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and the author or editor of numerous books,
including THE ETHICS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTS, with Daniel Coelho.
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/
Book: Who Owns Life?
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