Why is it important to broaden and expand the debate about bioethical issues?
Levine: Human societies have been interested in matters of morality or ethics since before recorded history. Bioethics took a different turn in the United States in the 1960s than it might have had earlier because it was in the 1960s that we first noticed officially that we were a heterogeneous society. Before then it was as if there were a single voice that determined matters of right and wrong and what’s moral and so on. And it was essentially a white male, upper middle class, Christian voice. In the 1960s we began to listen to other voices. Watch future issues of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar for Information about activities sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project. — By Jacqueline Weaver T H I SW E E K ‘ SS T O R I E S Strobe Talbott to head Center for Study of Globalization Need-blind admission policy extended to international students Project boosts interdisciplinary debate about bioethical issues Arts Council honors six Yale affiliates ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS • Fiona
