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...digging up the past, even in the name of science, angers people who view tombs as inviolate resting places. University of Minnesota bioethicist Arthur Caplan is worried that the "Peeping Toms of forensics" are out of control. "If we don't want to devalue the past," he says, "then we're going to have to restrict the access of those who can rummage through it." Rather than banning such explorations, however, Caplan favors using blue-ribbon panels to establish guidelines for exhumations and testing. Even medical examiner Michael Baden, co-director of the New York State Police forensic-sciences % unit...
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Like many, Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, believes that PCR will revolutionize everything from medicine and biology to anthropology and history. It is a prospect he finds both exhilarating and disturbing. Technically, it would be possible, by examining DNA samples from the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and those of his slave Sally Hemings, to determine once and for all whether Jefferson, as rumored, fathered some of Hemings' children. Would this be an appropriate use of the new technology? "Let me put it this way," says Caplan. "Because...
...Tyana R. Caplan '91, who took the class both last year and first semester of this term, says there were a few times when Bunker went away and the class had a substitute teacher. "It just wasn't the same," she says...
...Everyone has this idea of it as this crunchy thing. I had all the preconceived notions of people sitting around and 'om-ing,'" says Caplan...