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Arthur Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan is Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has written for The Nation and the Council for Secular Humanism's Free Inquiry.

"Attack of the Anti-Cloners," Arthur Caplan, Free Inquiry, Winter 2002/2003, p. 30.
"Mapping Morality: The Rights and Wrongs of Genomics," in M. Yudell and R. DeSalle, eds., The Genomics Revolution, Joseph Henry Press, 2002: 189-94.
"NAS Cloning Hearing," Science, 294 (2001): 1651
"Cloning Human Embryos," Western Journal of Medicine, 176 (2002): 78-79.
"Protecting Subjects' Interests in Genetics Research," American Journal of Human Genetics, 70 (2002):965-71 (with J.E Merz, D. Magnus, M.K. Cho).
"What Is Morally Wrong with Eugenics?" in PR. Sloan, ed., Controlling Our Destinies, Notre Dame University Press, 2000: 209-23.

Also see "Breaking Bioethics" on the health page of MSNBC.com, featuring several columns by Caplan on cloning and related topics.

Caplan is the editor or author of 24 books including:

Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine (2004) ISBN 1589010140
Who Owns Life? (2002) ISBN 1573929867
Finding Common Ground: Ethics and Assisted Suicide (2001)
Ethics And Organ Transplants, (1999)
Am I My Brother's Keeper? (1998)
Due Consideration: Controversy in an Age of Medical Miracles, (1997)
Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling, Aldine Press, (1993)
If I Were A Rich Man Could I Buy A Pancreas And Other Essays On Medical Ethics, (1992)
When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics And The Holocaust (1992).

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