Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksBeyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques. Dianne M. Bartels , Reinhard Priester , Dorothy E. Vawter , Arthur L. Caplan Clifford GrobsteinClifford Grobstein Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 66, Number 1Mar., 1991 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/417117 Copyright 1991 The University of Chicago PressPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 541, Issue 1 p. 346-348 Biological Characteristics of the Preembryo CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN, CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093Search for more papers by this author CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN, CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1988 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb22272.xCitations: 7AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume541, Issue1In Vitro Fertilization and Other Assisted ReproductionOctober 1988Pages 346-348 RelatedInformation

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 541, Issue 1 p. 679-682 Public Policy Aspects of Assisted Reproduction Vth World Congress, IVF and Embryo Transfer CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN, CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN Program in Science, Technology and Public Affairs University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093Search for more papers by this author CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN, CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN Program in Science, Technology and Public Affairs University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1988 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb22305.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume541, Issue1In Vitro Fertilization and Other Assisted ReproductionOctober 1988Pages 679-682 RelatedInformation

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksReproduction in Mammals. C. R. Austin , R. V. Short Clifford GrobsteinClifford Grobstein Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 63, Number 1Mar., 1988 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/415759 Copyright 1988 Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksHuman Embryo Research: Yes or No?. Gregory Bock , Maeve O'Connor Clifford GrobsteinClifford Grobstein Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 62, Number 4Dec., 1987 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/415698 Copyright 1987 Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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Ditta Bartels (STHV. Fall, 1985) outlines the development of constructivist sociology as an outgrowth of sociology of science. It leads to recognition, she says, "that scientific knowledge represents not a true depiction of reality, but rather is shaped by and for certain political objectives" (po 73). Further, "[ijt must be recognized generally that scientific knowledge is not objective, and hence cannot serve as the undisputed, rock-hard base upon which potentially discriminatory political decisions must be erected" [p, 731· This is too sweeping a generalization to remain without comment as to its evidentiary and logical base. Bartels cites sociological studies, including ethnographic ones in functioning scientific laboratories, that reveal the operation of contextual impacts on research choices and decisions. Included among these impacts are social and political biases of the investigators. The argument moves swiftly to the conclusion that scientific research is a social and political process, with no more objectivity and validity than passionate social and political debate. Omitted, of course, is much else which goes into the scientific process, deliberately contrived to yield some level of objectivity. This activity long ago came to be known as the scientific

The author reviews Jacob Bronowski’s concept of progress based on evolution as a progression that builds biological and social forms of increasing order and complexity. The author questions Bronowski’s optimism that untrammelled advance in science and technology will inevitably lead to progress. In today’s age of nuclear development and genetic intervention, such advances can conceivably become anti-progressive. Natural selection, which in the past guided progressive evolution, must today be augmented by ‘conscious selection’ of advances based on human goals and values. Sensitively applied constraints on directions of science and particularly technology may be necessary means for ensuring that continuing progression will also be judged to be progress.

Freezing of live human embryos in cleavage stages was highlighted in the U.S. media a year or so ago when an American couple died in a plane crash, leaving an heir in the United States and two frozen human embryos in an infertility center in Melbourne, Australia. Media attention focused on the legal status of the embryos with respect to inheritance,1 but other broader issues have been cited as well.2 3 4 Because freezing of embryos as an adjunct to external human fertilization (in vitro fertilization) is beginning to be done in the United States,1 such issues will have to be addressed, . . .