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American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.011
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2007English
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We will explore the changing political choices and ethical dilemmas of American scientists from the atomic scientists of World War II to biologists in the present wrestling with the questions raised by cloning and other biotechnologies. As well as asking how we would behave if confronted with the same choices, we will try to understand the choices scientists have made by seeing them in their historical and political contexts.

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