Saturday, February 20, 2010

Weighing the ethics of Parental rights as modified by multiparent conception......and its further implications

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After reading this Article: a few times I want to address the ideology behind "Intent to procreate". This concept in and of itsel...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Bioethics and the Olympics

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Our colleague Elizabeth Reis asks: Is intersex a disorder or a competitive advantage? The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is implicit...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

DIY Synthetic Biology - More Than Building a Better Tomato

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A few years in his book, A Many-Colored Glass , Freeman Dyson envisioned that the domestication of biotechnology would result in a new art f...
Monday, February 15, 2010

HeLa Cells and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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I had the pleasure of being one of the fact-checkers and proof reviewers on Rebecca Skloot's book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Samantha Burton's Ordeal at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital

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Well, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital is at it again – that is, forcing a pregnant woman to undergo medical treatment against her will. You m...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Randi Epstein's "Get Me Out: Making Babies Throughout the Ages"

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As I was driving past the Brazilian Embassy a few days back on Massachusetts Ave in DC, I turned on the radio and heard "So tell me abo...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Is Evidence Based medicine morphing into Algorithm Based medicine?

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We all want health care to be based, as much as possible, on a scientific basis. When we initiate a treatment or make a diagnosis, we need...
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Monday, February 01, 2010

Designer Obstetrics: Cesarean Section on Demand

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Should women be able to request a cesarean section to deliver their baby just because they can? Cesarean Section on demand is defined as ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Avatar: The Future of Bioethics is Now

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Avatar , the recently released big budget movie by James Cameron, has taken the entertainment industry by storm. Normally “not to be p...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Abortions in the military: disempowering women in service

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Prior to Roe v. Wade , women in the military were pressured to get abortions so as to preserve them and their physical availability for serv...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

"Health, Sex, and Women's Rights in Contemporary Asia" - upcoming lecture series in Seattle

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Starting this Saturday, the Gardner Center for Asian Arts and Ideas will be hosting a lecture series titled "Health, Sex, and Women...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Donate $50 - Get Progress in Bioethics

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Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Women’s Bioethics Project so we may distribute as many copies as possible of the so...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Kristof on Cancer in the Kitchen

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NY Times Nicholas Kristof makes a point worthy of notice to those in the public health: "As long as we’re examining our medical system,...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

WBP mentioned on CNN Health

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Kathryn Hinsch, founder of the Women's Bioethics Project, was quoted on CNN Health, regarding ethical issues in cosmetic surgery and pa...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

An Imperfect Organic Woman’s Perspective on the "Perfect Robot Woman"

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When it comes to the perfect, what is it that we want? Is it one woman, or is it several? Recently a link popped up of the Perfect Woman . I...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Deus Sex Machina

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(cross-posted on Sentient Developments ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve ...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

An Open Letter to Future Bioethicists

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I couldn't attend the ASBH meeting in DC this year, but apparently, Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel gave quite a controversial speec...
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