Future Global Ethical Issues (Excerpt from the State of the Future report)



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Is it ethical to produce embryonic cells "in vitro,” for the specific purpose of obtaining T-cells?













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Is it ethical to include in pharmaceutical patents certain provisions that favor less developed countries?













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Is it unethical to destroy frozen embryos?













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Is cloning of one's self ethical?













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What ethical issues are involved in defining health and disease?













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304

With accelerating distribution of street drugs and psychiatric medication, are there ethical limits to the drugging of people?













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Should we be able to manipulate learning aptitude or human awareness by neuro-medical or pharmacological means?













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Are there circumstances in which euthanasia will become generally acceptable?













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Is it ethical for an International Agency to define criteria for using human genome to identify certain characteristics of individuals?













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What are the ethical implications of legalization of the production and private consumption of drugs?













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411

How ethically can health services be disentangled from economic interests, taking into account the patents protected by their creators, the high costs of hospital care, and the expense of medicines.













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What criteria should evaluate the human genome, cloning, and the research into medullar cells of embryos, and what sort of people should do the evaluations?













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473

Is it right to promote products about which questions exist on threats to human health?













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476

Is it right for society to allow human cloning for therapeutic purposes?













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477

Should people have the right to sell their organs for transplantation?













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Does the reimbursement of medical study volunteers raise ethical issues about coercion of poor participants?













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What is the ethical way to use human genome information for medical and regulatory purposes?













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547

Should an international code of ethics be established that would prevent children from being mutilated or submitted to harmful procedures by following cultural or religious practices?













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555

Ethically, should governments be required to disclose all potential risk and hazard information associated with nuclear waste disposal and containment in order for the public to gauge risk acceptability to ourselves and future generations?













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Should someone or a company be able to patent genetic material?
















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Should pharmaceutical patents apply in situations in which the patented drugs could benefit poor people or nations?
















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How can the concept of Intellectual Property Rights change in the decades ahead to help manage global inequalities?
















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Should scientists be forced to publish their results in a publicly globally available form, and add a summary that everyone with a secondary degree can understand?
















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How can the right of all people to have unrestricted access to knowledge be best balanced against the individual right on intellectual property? (Problem includes, but is not restricted to software patents, copyrights etc.)
















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Are electronic commerce monopolies ethical?
















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What is the ethical way for issues of protecting the intellectual capital of indigenous communities (IKS) to be handled relative to extraction / commercialization aspirations of the S&T community?
















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Who should have access to personal genetic information, and how the use of such information be controlled?


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