Toward a New Ethical Science
Jonathan Moreno on What Makes Us Human in the Biological Age
In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Jonathan D. Moreno, author of The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America.
Science and ethics have come into conflict for centuries; the tension has only increased with the technological leaps of the last few decades. Drawing on current controversies and history, Moreno suggests that science and politics will become increasingly entwined into what he calls “biopolitics”-our fight to …
