Ethics in Public Policy

Cloning: ethics and public policy.

Questions of ethics in public health policy.

Enhancement technology, ethics, and public policy.

Introduction Gene technology has spawned a wide range of controversies since the early days of recombinant DNA research in the 1960s. Many scientific and ethical issues are discussed throughout this symposium. A particularly troublesome set of questions arises from the uses of gene technology to change personal characteristics that are within the range of normal but for which some kind of impro...

Ethics, Public Policy and Civic Education

This paper addresses current issues in ethics, public policy and public policy education. I have written about ethical issues in public policy research (Ballard and James) and I have developed codes of ethics in two organizational settings. Yet, this topic is a difficult one. To most public servants, "ethics" is either an abstract topic or one familiar to us only because of highly visible event...

Public health ethics and intellectual property policy.

The articles in this issue of the Bulletin describe some of the challenges posed by notions of intellectual property in areas as diverse as genetic testing, genomic epidemiology, pharmaceuticals and vaccines. The constructive practical solut tions suggested include royalty clearing houses, comprehensive research colt laboration policies, and modified DNA patenting regimes. All of the articles a...