| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Commentary | Honoring the Choice to Die | Michelle Marder Kamhi | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: What is the most humane way to treat individuals who, at the end of a long life, express a clear-minded wish to die? As a society with an increasingly aged population, we need to confront this question head-on. |
|
| Commentary | John Q. in Canada | John Vincent | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Ed Hudgins's review of the movie John Q. in the April Navigator mentioned the protagonist's demand for "Free health care for everyone!" Reading the review, a TOC member who lives in Canada thought it would be revealing to ask: "How would the plot of John Q. have played out here, where there is free health care for everyone?" |
|
| Op-ed | It's good to play god | Jim Peron | 1/16/2002 |
| Description: Technology and ''playing god'' make life better |
|
| Op-ed | Human Cloning: When is a person a person? | Patrick Stephens | 12/4/2001 |
| Description: A detailed philosophical analysis of why an embryo is not a
person.
|
|
| Review | Taming the Animal Within | Damian Moskovitz | 11/9/2001 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz, a recent Harvard University graduate, reviews Mean Genes. Though studying evolutionary psychology to help us improve ourselves is a useful tool, says Moskovitz, the two researchers who wrote this book commit bad philosophy and sloppy science. |
|
| Commentary | Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy? | Patrick Stephens | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: “Is it morally and legally proper to use human embryos for such research?” and “Should government funds be used for this research?” Patrick Stephens, TOC’s manager of current affairs, sorts out the issues. |
|
| Review | Postmodern Medicine | James Lee Brooks | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Psychiatrist Sally Satel has compiled a “horror file” of postmodern philosophy’s effects on medicine: PC, M.D. Reviewer James Lee Brooks says the harms exist, but reality will probably win in the end. |
|
| Op-ed | Destroying Embryos is not immoral | Patrick Stephens | 4/3/2001 |
| Description: The embryos used in cloning procedures have no moral status. |
|
| Op-ed | Human Cloning is good for all of us | Patrick Stephens | 4/3/2001 |
| Description: Human cloning, like any technology, is a boon to mankind. |
|
| Commentary | Cloning: Toward a New Conception of Humanity? | Patrick Stephens | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Though science has not progressed to the point where a human can be safely cloned, things are quickly moving in that direction. And the debate over whether a human should be cloned, says Patrick Stephens, TOC’s manager of current affairs, will help shape the future definition of humanity. |
|
