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Alexander Morgan Capron

Publications and source records attributed to Alexander Morgan Capron.

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PubMed1997

Inside the Beltway again: a sheep of a different feather.

The appearance of a sheep named Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, dramatically affected the agenda, pace of work, and visibility of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The Commission's approach to its task and some of the issues it considered in responding to President Clinton's request for review and recommendations within 90 days are described.

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PubMed1993

Law and bioethics.

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PubMed1992

The Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

The Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics has been created at the University of Southern California to address issues concerning health care and research from an ethical perspective. The Pacific Center is designed as an umbrella organization that will facilitate multidisciplinary work and inter-institutional collaboration through sponsorship of research and coalition building. The Center will also be a consultant to government and a resource on curriculum development and clinical ethics consultation. It will involve itself in a broad range of issues including control over dying, use of biotechnology, and access to health care and will bring diverse perspectives and values to these activities.

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PubMed1991

Human genome research in an interdependent world.

This has been the year of agenda-setting conferences for the ambitious ELSI (ethical, legal and social issues) program of the Human Genome Project (HGP). But of the dozen or more major meetings of this sort held across the country, the one held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, June 2-4, 1991, was distinctive in several respects. As its name implies, "Human Genome Research in an Interdependent World" was a global look at the issues raised by gene mapping and sequencing. Unlike previous conferences, however, this meeting looked beyond a comparative analysis of clinical and domestic legal issues, and concentrated on topics that may require responses on a truly international level if they are to be successfully resolved....[Capron served as general chairman of the conference]

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PubMed1986

How the Report made a difference: reflections on a 15th anniversary.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the Hasting Center Report, six authors who have written for the Report since its beginning comment briefly on an article or a theme from the Report that has had an impact on their thinking or on the way that bioethics has developed as a discipline. The titles of the commentaries are as follows: "In praise of William May's 'attitudes'" (A.M. Capron); "On opening human experimentation to moral debate" (S. Bok); "Learning from Ramsey" (R.A. McCormick); "Toward a science of particulars" (E.J. Cassell); "Challenging the power of codes" (R.M. Veatch); and "Relating moral principles and moral behavior" (D. Callahan).

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