Friday, September 01, 2006
The Power of Bioethics
Arthur Caplan explains the role of bioethics in making life-and-death decisions.
By David Ewing Duncan
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| Art Caplan (Credit: Chris Crisman) |
Round and brash, with the gravelly voice of a street fighter, Arthur Caplan looks and sounds more like a boxer than an ethical philosopher. The director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Caplan has been enormously influential in a variety of debates in modern biomedicine, from the fate of Terri Schiavo to the market for organs for transplant. He has written or coauthored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and several books on the ethics of new medical technologies.
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