December 11, 2015
The New Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Representative Aspects of Some Synthetic Gametes” by Calum Mackellar “Transhumanisim: A New Kind of Promethean Hubris” by Agneta Sutton “Lessons in Biopolitics and Agency: Agamben … Read More
December 9, 2015
NanoEthics (vol. 9, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Analyses of Acceptability Judgments Made Toward the Use of Nanocarrier-Based Targeted Drug Deliver: Interviews with Researchers and Research Trainees in the Field of New Technologies” by Vanessa … Read More
December 8, 2015
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December 3, 2015
(Medical Daily) – Humans have been trying to cheat death for centuries. But while this may have seemed like an impossible pipe dream, the evolution of technology is making it all the more possible that it’s only a matter of … Read More
December 2, 2015
Hastings Center Report (vol. 45, no. 5, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Neural Devices: New Ethics?” by Gregory E. Kaebnick “Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices” by Eran Klein, et al. “Another Voice: … Read More
December 1, 2015
(Wired) – Have you ever wished that there were something different about yourself? Maybe you imagined yourself taller, thinner, or stronger? Smarter? More attractive? Healthier? Or perhaps, as much as you love your children, you wished that there was something … Read More
November 25, 2015
Neuroethics (vol. 8, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa” by Hannah Maslen, Jonathan Pugh, and Julian Savulescu “Cognitive Enhancement and the Principle of Need” … Read More
November 20, 2015
(Yahoo! News) – Will men be able to give birth sooner than, well, never? That’s the question provoked by last week’s announcement that the Cleveland Clinic is performing uterus transplant surgery on women who were born without a womb or … Read More
November 19, 2015
(Los Angeles Times) – Stimulant medications used to treat attention deficit problems and keep service members alert during long stretches of combat might increase vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study suggests. Defense Department researchers analyzing data from nearly … Read More
November 16, 2015
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 40, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Taming Our Brave New World” by Joshua A. Reagan “Surrogate Motherhood: A Trust-Based Approach” by Katharina Beier “Procreative Beneficence, Intelligence, and the … Read More
November 12, 2015
Bioethics (vol. 29, no. 9, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Ethics of Introducing GMOs into sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations from the sub-Saharan African Theory of Ubuntu” by Ana Komparic “Reexamining Healthcare Justice in the Light of Empirical Data” … Read More
November 2, 2015
(Pacific Standard) – Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem “Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” has the hopeful, reverential tone of a prayer. What Brautigan longs for in the poem is a utopia without work, where humans are “joined back to … Read More
October 22, 2015
Ethics and Information Technology (vol. 17, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “From the Bench to the Bedside in the Big Data Age: Ethics and Practices of Consent and Privacy for Clinical Genomics and Personalized Medicine” … Read More
October 16, 2015
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 41, no. 10, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “End-of-Life Decisions for Children under 1 Year of Age in the Netherlands: Decreased Frequency of Administration of Drugs to Deliberately Hasten Death” by Katja … Read More
October 15, 2015
(BBC) – Earlier this year, a two-year-old Thai girl became the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen, preserving her brain moments after death in the hope that she will one day be brought back to life. The BBC’s Jonathan Head … Read More
October 15, 2015
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 18, no. 4, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Reasons for Narrowing the Scope of Biotech Patents” by Tom Andreassen “The Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)” by Marcus Unterrainer and … Read More
October 14, 2015
(MIT Technology Review) – The experiment seems likely to be remembered as either a new low in medical quackery or, perhaps, the unlikely start of an era in which people receive genetic modifications not just to treat disease, but to … Read More
October 14, 2015
(New York Times) – I am a theoretical neuroscientist. I study models of brain circuits, precisely the sort of models that would be needed to try to reconstruct or emulate a functioning brain from a detailed knowledge of its structure. … Read More
October 8, 2015
Hastings Center Report (vol. 45, no. 5, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “SOLIDARITY in the Moral Imagination of Bioethics” by Bruce Jennings and Angus Dawson “Don’t Mind the Gap: Intuitions, Emotions, and Reasons in the Enhancement Debate” … Read More
September 21, 2015
(BBC) – Zoltan Istvan is running for US president. He’s the leader of the Transhumanist Party, which is campaigning to develop technology that would help us to live forever. That is also why he is driving round the US in … Read More
September 18, 2015
Neuroethics (vol. 8, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Self-Estrangement & Deep Brain Stimulation: Ethical Issues Related to Forced Explantation” by Frederic Gilbert “Neurostimulation Devices for Cognitive Enhancement: Toward a Comprehensive Regulatory Framework” by Veljko Dubljevi? “Enhancement … Read More
September 16, 2015
Journal of Law and the Biosciences (vol. 2, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Early Adopters of the Magical Thinking Cap: A Study on Do-it-yourself (DIY) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) User Community” by Anita Jwa … Read More
September 16, 2015
Bioethics (vol. 29, no. 7, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “On the Alleged Right to Participate in High-Risk Research” by Joanna Ró?y?ska “Rethinking Informed Consent in Research on Heroin-Assisted Treatment” by Susanne Uusitalo and Barbara Broers “Counterfactual Consent … Read More
September 15, 2015
(BBC) – As technology advances, a group of people known as transhumanists are increasingly seeking ways to enable us to live on in new forms. How plausible are their ideas? “We have this strange idea that dying is something we … Read More
September 15, 2015
Medical Law Review (vol. 23, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Offender Personality Disorder Pathway: Risking Rehabilitation?” by Leon McRae “Legal Bases for Disclosing Confidential Patient Information for Public Health” Distinguishing between Health Protection and … Read More
