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Arthur Schafer

Arthur Schafer is the director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.

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Does Technology Make Us Do It?

Two very different views of ethics in the modern age. December 2008
Dr. Schweitzer, may I introduce Dr. Frankenstein. Images of the miracle-working white-coated scientist are embedded in contemporary western culture. The hoped-for miracles are various. Medical scientists, we believe, are on the verge of bringing us a cure for cancer, along with a vaccine for AIDS. Agricultural scientists are creating genetically modified crops whose fecundity…