Art Caplan on living longer

Arthur Caplan
Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

As 2008 nears its end, Midday features some of the most provocative speeches of the year.

In a speech at the Chautauqua Institution this summer, Art Caplan, one of the country's leading bioethicists tried to answer the question: "Is it immoral to want to live longer, be smarter and look better?"

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