Gregory Stock and John Campbell (panel discussion)

About the author: Gregory Stock and John Campbell, both professors at the School of Medicine of the University of California, Los Angeles, were organizers of a March 1998 symposium on human germline genetic engineering at which the panel discussion excerpted here took place. James D. Watson is codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, a winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine, president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and was from 1988 to 1992 the head of the United States part of the Human Genome Project. John Fletcher is Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. Andrea Bonnicksen is a professor in the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University. Leroy Hood is the inventor of the gene sequencing machine that has helped to make possible the deciphering of the human and...