This volume explores key areas of development in biology and medicine--designer babies, cloning, organ transplantation and stem cells, performance-enhancing drugs and gene therapy, extending the lifespan, genetic profiling, brain imaging, and creating new organisms--and the ethics involved, as well as ethical issues associated with scientific research in general. Each chapter details one or more applications of the biomedical technology, the moral issues involved, the current state of the science and the ethical implications of each new development, and arguments for and against the changes each advance is likely to bring. Annotation ?016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)