BIOETHICS CENTER FORMED
Chemical & Engineering News · 1971
Bioethics, a new discipline which studies ethical questions increasingly aroused by biosciences and medicine, will have its first comprehensive center at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Physicians, life and physical scientists, social scientists, and ethicists will bring to perplexing biomedical questions—often of life and death—the benefits of the best thinking. Founding of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Bioethics at Georgetown was announced 10 days ago by Robert J. Henle, S.J., president of the university. A grant of $1.35 million from the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation to help establish the institute was announced at the same time by the foundation's president, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.), and executive vice president Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Developments in medicine and biology in recent years have raised numerous ethical questions. Creation of "test tube babies" and cloning— which once were chilling concepts confined to life in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"—are now ...