"What is "acceptable" science and medicine? Who decides?
How can society balance the benefits of new medical discoveries against ethical or spiritual questions they may pose? Or the human urge to know
and understand against problems arising from that knowledge?
Researchers have made such seemingly philosophical questions as timely
as tomorrow's headlines. The transplantation of tissue from one species to another raises them. So does the use of dissected human corpses in
medical research. But the process of resolving both issues has profited from an openness of public debate that Victor Frankenstein, alone in his
laboratory, could scarcely have imagined." (from the exhibit guide)
The Visible Human. Courtesy of the National Institute of Health.
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