Feeling Good and Doing Better: Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use

The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the National Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Human Values, * The Hastings Center was able to sponsor such dialog as part of a major research into the ethics of drug use that spanned two years. We assembled a Research Group from leaders in the scientific, ...