Read a June 22, 2005, Christian Science Monitor story on the debate stem cell research is sparking in Muslim countries.

Dr. John Lantos is professor of pediatrics and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation and author of The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care.

Frank Gonzalez-Crussi was formerly head of laboratories at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital and professor of pathology at Northwestern Medical School. His books include On Being Born and Other Difficulties.

Jacqueline J. Glover is an associate professor in the departments of pediatrics and preventive medicine and biometrics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She is also an associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, where she directs the center’s clinical ethics program and the interdisciplinary education program. She is […]

Peter A. Clark is professor of theology and health administration, holder of the John McShain Chair in Ethics and director of the Institute of Catholic Bioethics at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He is a Catholic priest, an affiliated scholar-associate at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center and bioethicist for the […]

Renee R. Anspach is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and author of Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery.

George Daley is a stem cell biologist with the Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School. He supports a bill that would allow embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts.

Thomas Anthony Shannon is professor of religion and ethics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. He wrote Made in Whose Image?: Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics (Humanity Books, 2000) and co-wrote New Genetic Medicine: Theological and Ethical Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

The Rev. John Langan is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He wrote the entry “Stem Cell Research and Religious Freedom” for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics.