Gene Therapy (Part Two)
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about the danger in assuming that if we know an individual's genetic blueprint, we know the individual. He reminds us that, as important as genetic structure may be, ultimately the individual is the pr...
Gene Therapy (Part One)
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about the importance of not discriminating against those who have been diagnosed with a genetic predisposition that may or may not develop into the illness or condition for which the predisposition exi...
Living with Cancer: New Approaches to Cancer Treatment
In the last few years, a new breed of treatment has emerged in the fight against cancer. Called biomodulation, it is the manipulation of the body's own immune system to get rid of the cancer. When traditional treatment methods failed to stop the adv...
The Code: Ethical Questions Raised by Genetic Manipulation
When is comes to genetic manipulation ethicists ask where do you draw the line. Which kinds of treatment are appropriate and which are not? Harold Varmus, former head of the National Institutes of Health, says that many doctors and researchers draw ...