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45 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/pace45 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION-BIOETHICS AFTER DOBBS James Toomey* Bioethics, true to its name, is the branch of applied ethics that fo- cuses on ethical questions in biology and medicine.' Its aspiration is to answer the difficult questions that arise throughout our encounters with biology, from the everyday-how ought doctors convey infor- mation to patients?2-to the existential-what sorts of changes to our biological constitution would be good? which would destroy us?3; from the technical-how should researchers store medical data?4-to the abstract-what is a person? by virtue of what do we matter, if we do?s; *Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law; previously Assistant Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law. Deepest thanks to Madison Powers, Ellie Taranto, Rianna lorillo, Megan Vecere, Janay Russo and the staff of the Pace Law Review for their work in putting together this Symposium and corresponding Sympo- sium edition. Moreover, thanks to Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer, Melissa McMon- agle, Judith Jaeger, Renee Brown-Cheng, Rachael Silva, Theresa Prestopino, Jessica Bacher, Ann Marie McCoy and the Pace Law School Land Use Law Center, and to all of the speakers, for their support in making the April 5, 2024, Bioethics After Dobbs Sym- posium possible. 1. See, e.g., RANNAN GILLON, Bioethics, Overview, in THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ETHICS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY 1-2 (Ruth Chadwick ed., 2001) (Bioethics (as the etymol- ogy of its Greek root implies-bios means life and ethicke ethics) is the study of the ethical issues arising in the practice of the biological disciplines.); see also HELGA KUHSE & PETER SINGER, What is Bioethics?A Historical Introduction, in A COMPANION To BIOETHICS 30 (2d ed. 2009) (providing a historical perspective on the field of bioeth- ics). 2. See, e.g., Tom L. Beauchamp, Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Pre- sent Challenges, 20 CAMBRIDGE Q. HEALTHCARE ETHICS 515, 515 (2011) (Discussions of disclosure and justified nondisclosure have played a significant role throughout the history of medical ethics ....). 3. See generally PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS, BEYOND THERAPY: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (2003) (analyzing the pros and cons of biotechnology); JOHN HARRIS, ENHANCING EVOLUTION: THE ETHICAL CASE FOR MAKING BETTER PEOPLE (2010) (discussing objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, and cloning, and ar- gues that ethically human enhancement is good for society); NICHOLAS AGAR, HUMANITY'S END: WHY WE SHOULD REJECT RADICAL ENHANCEMENT (2010) (discussing, largely, the drawbacks for radical enhancement); JULIAN SAVULESCU & NICK BOSTROM, HUMAN ENHANCEMENT (2009) (exploring the extent to which we should use technolog- ical advances to make human beings better). 4. Seegenerally, e.g., I. GLENN COHEN ETAL., BIG DATA, HEALTH LAW, AND BIOETHICS 28- 29 (2018); Kenneth W. Goodman &Anita Cava, Bioethics, BusinessEthics, andScience: Bioinformatics and the Future of Healthcare, 17 CAMBRIDGE Q. HEALTHCARE ETHICS 361, 364 (2008). 5. See, e.g., John Harris, The Concept of the Person and Value of Life, 9 KENNEDY INST. ETHICS J. 293 (1999); Eva Feder Kittay, At the Margins of Moral Personhood, 116 1

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