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Ethicist To Examine Cloning IssuesA medical ethicist conducting National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research says the worldwide fascination and emotional debate over recent advances in cloning animals reveal much about what humans hold precious about themselves. Allen Buchanan, a consulting medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit NSF to present his views on why cloning both fascinates and frightens the public, and what might really happen -- the good, the bad and the unlikely -- as research on cloning marches on. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Buchanan is the Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy, Granger Professor of Business Ethics, and a professor of medical ethics in the School of Medicine. He was staff philosopher for the President's Commission for Medical Ethics (1980-83) and served on the staff of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experimentation (1995-96). He is the author of a book on medical ethics, Deciding for Others (Cambridge Press, 1989). His current research on ethical issues is funded through NSF's ethics and value studies program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
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