What are the implications of the brain disease model of addiction?

Is it politically desirable for society to credit a designated group called "bioethicists" with expertise in resolving the most difficult moral questions?

A review of Michael L. Gross's Bioethics and Armed Conflict.

A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology--and the future of American society.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Diana Schaub delivers the tenth of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures.

The author responds to the question of the relation between bioethics and the Constitution.

What guidance does the Constitution offer us in considering the ethical dilemmas posed by biotechnology? Drawing upon Madison, Jefferson, and Lincoln, Diana Schaub examines four constitutional clauses that bear on bioethics. She reveals that our contemporary dilemmas and debates--about the status of the human embryo, for instance, or the position...