DOES JUSTICE REQUIRE THAT WE BE AGEIST?

Does justice require genetic enhancements?

It is argued that justice in some cases provides a pro tanto reason genetically to enhance victims of the genetic lottery. Various arguments--both to the effect that justice provides no such reason and to the effect that while there may be such reasons, they are overridden by certain moral constraints--are considered and rejected. Finally, it is argued that justice provides stronger reasons to ...

Application of phylogenetically defined names does not require that every specifier be present on a tree.

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Smy1p, a Kinesin-related Protein That Does Not Require Microtubules

We have previously reported that a defect in Myo2p, a myosin in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), can be partially corrected by overexpression of Smy1p, which is by sequence a kinesin-related protein (Lillie, S.H., and S.S. Brown. 1992. Nature. 356:358- 361). Such a functional link between putative actin- and microtubule-based motors is surprising, so here we have tested the prediction ...

What Does the Lord Require? HOW AMERICAN CHRISTIANS THINK ABOUT ECONOMIC JUSTICE

What does social justice require for the public's health? Public health ethics and policy imperatives.

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. This account of justice stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and the sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin moral impulses that animate public health: to advance human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by focusing on the needs of the most dis...