Arthur L. Caplan

TL;DR: The basic tenets of what I will refer to as the “old” and “new” sociobiology will be presented and discussed and some effort will be made to explain why sociobiological theorizing has been and continues to be a source of controversy by examining the implications of current Sociobiology for morality.

TL;DR: Fins' role as co-director of the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Rockefeller University reflected his struggle to answer the kinds of questions that stand to shape how society treats people with brain injuries as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A new proposal is offered that addresses the justice concerns which compel the establishment of a national compensation system, distributes the burdens of such a system on multiple stakeholders that benefit from research, and has the additional advantage of minimizing the administrative and logistical challenges associated with initiatingsuch a system.

TL;DR: The field of PGD is explored with the director of a PGD laboratory, a bioethicist, and an attorney to understand their views on the ethics of PGP, similar to the prenatal diagnosis used to screen for various genetic diseases before birth.

TL;DR: This evaluation will be allowed to affect individual criterion scores, assessments of overall merit, and Overall Impact/Priority scores during initial peer review.