(August 2003) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana “In the realm of bioethics, the evils we face are intertwined with the goods we so keenly seek. Distinguishing good and bad thus intermixed is often extremely difficult.” — Leon R. Kass MD, PhD Chairman, The President’s Council on Bioethics Since the announcement that the entire human DNA genome had been sequenced in June 2000, newspapers around the world have been rife with proclamations describing how this information is being used for the prevention and treatment of genetic disorders. Among the most promising and…