Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic professional and public interest this comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians bioethicists and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Some of the nations leading journalists gathered in key west fla in may 2009 for the pew forum on religion public lifes faith angle conference on religion politics and public life francis s collins the former director of the human genome project discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs faith particularly in . The hard problem of consciousness the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious