Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Patent protection for breast-cancer genes may be ending

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As reported in the New York Times and elsewhere earlier this week, a federal district court judge has invalidated the patents held by test ...

UNESCO Call for Papers - Latin Bioethics

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The journal Revista Redbioética/UNESCO is a biannual publication that aspires to constitute a space for debate in the field of Latin America...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

A lesson learned the hard way (update)

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Nadya Suleman (a/k/a ‘Octomom’) shares the lessons she’s learned the hard way—with PETA helping her out, too. Nadya Suleman is the infam...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Women and Posthumanity: The future looks large and sexy

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The body has a lot of change to go through on the path to post-humanity. There is a lot of room for improvement and enhancement. Even with a...
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A Live Webcast of Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

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In an era in which women are increasingly represented in medicine, law, and business, why do they continue to lag behind men in science, t...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Bioethicists Weigh In On the Healthcare Reform Vote (updated)

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As the readers of this blog know, both myself and several of our bloggers have posted about universal health care coverage many , many ti...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Love’s Labour Lost: An act of desperation leads to a bad law

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There is a saying in the law that “hard cases make bad law”.  This tragic story is one of those hard cases:  Last year in June, a 17 yea...

First report on WA Death with Dignity law

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The Washington Department of Health last week released its report on the first year's experience with the state's new Death with D...
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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