September 24, 2012
It’s not every day that a new academic discipline is born. But that’s exactly what happened in 2012, when the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity – or “Queer Bioethics,” for short – came to life at the University … Read More
August 23, 2012
Technology and Human Flourishing 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture October 25-27, 2012 Baylor University Institute for Faith and Learning http://www.baylor.edu/ifl/index.php?id=88447
June 26, 2012
The 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine went, at least in part, to the victors in a battle of aesthetics. Roughly 10 years prior, during the race to uncover the structure of DNA — the molecule of life — researchers bickered … Read More
October 10, 2011
Few media stories on cancer venture into issues of death, dying and end-of-life care — and outlets directed at African Americans are particularly unlikely to do so, a new study suggests. (Reuters)
September 7, 2011
By enhancing ourselves with technology, do we throw away a part of our humanity? That’s the question at the heart of a new video game, Deus Ex: Human revolution. (Wired)
September 6, 2011
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It†— but not in any traditional way. (New York Times)
July 29, 2011
In 1995, an anesthesiologist named Charles Vacanti from the University of Massachusetts and his MIT colleague, chemical engineer Linda Griffith-Cima, implanted a lab-grown cartilage structure in the shape of a human ear under the skin of a hairless mouse. (Wired)
May 25, 2011
It may appear morose, but the director of a heart-wrenching documentary about doctor-assisted dying in Oregon hopes his film offers an uplifting lesson on how to live life. (Reuters)
May 4, 2011
In 2009, a Buenos Aires civic association awarded a prize named after American civil rights activist Rosa Parks to Argentinian Senator Liliana Negre de Alonso. The prize was given “por la DefensorÃa de la Vida Humana,†but the recipient’s resumé hardly … Read More
May 2, 2011
*They’ve been busy as video curators over at Vienna’s “Synthetic Biology Science, Art and Film Festival.â€Â *There are literally dozens of these remarkable efforts — and they invite you to spend all day rating them. http://bio-fiction.com/videos/ Biotech-labs around the world are busy … Read More
April 11, 2011
I am very excited to learn that starting in July, Netflix will have every Star Trek episode from every series available for instant streaming. And since I’ve been alluding to Star Trek quite a bit when touching on issues of … Read More
March 29, 2011
The media is awash with stories of so-called ‘‘fashion babies’’. Whether we’re talking about Elton and David’s son Zachary, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s ‘‘gestational carrier’’ or Brisbane couple Melissa Keevers and Rosemary Nolan’s new quintuplets, everyone is apparently entitled … Read More
March 29, 2011
The challenge of reining in the rising costs of the Medicare Program is particularly thorny because it confronts a recalcitrant societal tension between the necessity for cost control and the value of open-ended technology use for life extension in the … Read More
March 29, 2011
Hispanics, especially first- and second-generation Mexican-Americans, are less likely to donate organs than Americans as a whole, according to organ donation experts. (Reuters)
March 18, 2011
Israel has enthusiastically embraced advanced reproductive technologies. Now a court is considering whether parents have the right to use their dead son’s frozen sperm to create posthumous grandchildren. (Tablet Magazine)
March 15, 2011
Berry College Mount Berry, Georgia April 8-9, 2011 The conference will have four featured speakers: 1. Ronald Bailey, award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine, is the author of Liberation Biology and the editor of several books, including Global Warming and … Read More
March 14, 2011
The unconscious man with no ID had been brought in the previous day after being found in a pool of blood. He had vomited an additional 5 liters of blood and his condition remained unstable. If he begins to bleed … Read More
March 10, 2011
The governor of Illinois abolished the death penalty on Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly … Read More
February 25, 2011
Are designer babies a danger to the middle class? Should we, as a society, specially breed children for submission to the Achievatron to defeat Chinese mothers and live up to the genetic “Sputnik Moment†in which we find ourselves? Will … Read More
February 25, 2011
The first question we must ask is this: is surrogate motherhood, in general, ethically acceptable? For a variety of reasons I believe the answer is no: surrogate motherhood breaches children’s human rights regarding their coming-into-being; it confuses family roles and … Read More
