Expanding Horizons in Bioethics What are the resources and needs the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients of society or of nature How do we evaluate the societal potential of scientific discovery It is fairly well assured that we are influencing the terms of existence of many inhabitants of this planet from flora to fauna to humans. Moreover history has shown that while technologies can be used neutrally they can be (and have been) used to the great benefit or the great detriment of human life and the fate of the world as a whole. How various types of knowledge and technological ability will be deployed