Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Notes
1. Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
, trans. Terence Irwin (Indianapolis: Hackett
Publishing, 1985), 1169b18-19.
2. Ibid., 1095a17-18, 1095b5.
3. Margaret Jane Radin,
Contested Commodities
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1996), 9, 71-72.
4. Margaret Talbot, “A Desire to Duplicate,”
New York Times Magazine
,
February 4, 2001, 68. See also Nancy Gibbs, “Baby, It's You! And You, and You
...,”
Time
, February 19, 2001, 48.
5. Talbot, “A Desire” 45. See also Cathy Booth Thomas, “Copydog, Copycat,”
Time
, February 19, 2001, 57.
6. Office of Communications, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, “USCC
Official Urges Congress Adopt 'Meaningful' Ban on Human Cloning,” February
2, 1998, www.nccbuscc.org/com/archives.
7. See James M. Gustafson, “Genetic Engineering and the Normative View of
the Human,”
Ethical Issues in Biology and Medicine
, ed. Preston N. Williams
(Cambridge: Schenkman, 1972), 46-58; reprinted in James M. Gustafson,
Theology and Christian Ethics
(Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1974) 272-296.
8. For basic information on patenting, see U.S. Department of Energy Office of
Science, “Genetics and Patenting,” 2000, www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/patents.html;
Susan Cartier Poland, “Genes, Patents, and Bioethics: Will History Repeat
Itself?”
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
10, no. 3: 265-281; and Bartha
Maria Knoppers, “Status, Sale, and Patenting of Human Genetic Material: An
International Survey,”
Nature Genetics
22 No. 1 (May 1999): 23-25.
9. See Andrew Pollack, “Double Helix with a Twist: Do Fewer Genes Translate
into Fewer Dollars?”
New York Times
, February 13, 2001, C1, C4.
10. For a more detailed and extensive account of this case, see David Barnard,
“In the High Court of South Africa, Case No. 4138/98: The Global Politics of
Access to Low-Cost AIDS Drugs in Poor Countries,”
Kennedy Institute of
Ethnics Journal
12 (2002) 159-174; and Lisa Sowle Cahill, “Biotech and Justice:
Catching Up with the Real World Order,”
Hastings Center Report
33 (2003)
34-44.
11. See Donald G. McNeil Jr., “Indian Company Offers to Supply AIDS Drugs
at Low Cost in Africa,”
New York Times
, February 7, 2001, A1, A10.
12. See Donald G. McNeil Jr., “Oxfam Joins Campaign to Cut Drug Prices for
Poor Nations,”
New York Times
, February 13, 2001, A5.
13. See “From the U.N. Statement on AIDS: 'Prevention Must Be the Mainstay,' ”
New York Times
, June 29, 2001, A8.
14. See Tina Rosenberg, “Look at Brazil,”
New York Times Magazine
, January
28, 2001, 26, 28-31, 52, 58, 62-63.
15. Leo XIII,
Rerum Novarum: On the Condition of Labor
(Boston: The
Daughters of St. Paul, 1991), No. 27.
