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Welcome To Rural Sociology 2225 “Science, Technology

and Society”

Mary GrigsbyAssociate Professor of Rural Sociology

Division of Applied Social Sciences

Topics of Discussion:

– Stem Cell Tutorial-Univ of Michigan– Focused viewing of “Human Cloning: An Ethical

Dilemma”–Cartoon on Cloning–Groups assigned to discuss and report back on

specific ethical question related to “reproductive” cloning

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Tutorial• http://www.umich.edu/stemcell/tutorial/• Stem cell research

http://www.umich.edu/stemcell/faq/#section4• Center for Genetics and Society-Human Biotechnology

Policies Around the World – U.S. Federal; Global; Other Countries

• http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=304• http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/section.php?id=23• Center for American Progress• http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/11/an-emerging-

consensus/