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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Legal Voice Receives Bioethics Grant Award

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Over the last two years, the Women’s Bioethics Project has closely collaborated with Legal Voice on a number of bioethics-related projects...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

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GeneticsWatch Creating Life and Curing Blindness May 21, 2010 Tags: Venter , DNA , creating life , genome...

WBP Awards Grant to IJFAB

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The Women’s Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced it has awarded a $4,000 grant to the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to B...
Monday, May 17, 2010

DTC genetic testing: Caveat Emptor

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I met Cynthia in a van from the airport, headed to the annual meeting of Family Tree DNA (familytreedna.com), where I was to speak about ...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

A Bioethical Perspective on Oklahoma’s New Abortion Law

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The percentage of college educated Americans who support legal abortion seems to have reached a new low among women under thirty and among...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Myriads of Indecency: Ruling Against Patenting Cancer Genes Makes Scientific, Legal and Ethical Sense

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The decision of a US federal judge to rule against the patenting of the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes this Monday came as a pleasant surprise ...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Bioethics on TV: What is being portrayed?

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(Image credit: ABC/Eric McCandless) It is likely no surprise to regular viewers of the television medical dramas “ Grey’s Anatomy ” and “ Ho...
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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...
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