From Abortion to Zygote Banking

that is always incomplete, or the attempt to attack all science as being intrinsically value-laden. Avoiding these extremes, much valuable work remains to be d6ne. We need to examine the internal concepts of science, as Toulmin has suggested, to find how we might analyze the connections of the sciences with the foundations of ethics. We need to study more thoroughly the importance of genetic evolution for understanding our social behavior. We also need to re-examine the history of science to see where science-value interactions have occurred with important social effects, even though some of the concepts were, from our present point of view, faulty (the history of eugenics, the attempts to link quantum mechanical indeterminacy with concepts of free will, the relationship between Marxism and science, the relationship between religion and science). And of course we need to explore the ethical dimensions of present scientific research procedures and technological practices. By pursuing these different approaches we will learn much more about the great variety of ways in which science and values can interact

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