The Walter C. Randall Lecture: Embryos, Cloning People and Stem Cell Research

摘要

I was privileged to give the Walter C. Randall Lecture to the American Physiological Society at the IUPS/APS meeting in San Diego in April of this year, and the first part of that lecture was published in the last issue of The Physiologist. In that issue, I argued that medical research is an inherently ethical pursuit. We can all be proud that we work in medical research. We try to solve problems so that healthy people remain healthy, and ill people become better. Sometimes we have to accept that a disease is too damaging to a person, and a situation is beyond help, but we always try, through research, to improve the state of humankind.