A scientific breakthrough in a vacuum may be free of ethical implications. But many developments can be used for good or evil, or both. There’s a fine balance on what to control and to what extent.
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New regulations for research with human blood and tissue try to balance scientific progress with patient privacy.
Maybe you think neuroscience has a peaceable history of benign efforts to improve lives and enhance human capacities. But its origins and development tell a different story – with ethical implications.
The science of reanimating the dead from deep freeze is one thing. But even if possible, it poses serious social and legal questions.
How will neurotech evolve? An NAS workshop this week focuses on social and ethical opportunities and challenges we face both now and down the road.
Smart drugs are known to boost cognition in healthy people – but are they a form of cheating?
We’re living longer and more ill lives – could we use animals to grow human organs for transplants?
New and imagined digital technologies have important ethical implications. We should devise relevant social norms through a high-profile, public, collaborative process.
U.C. Berkeley and the Broad Institute are fighting to control the patents on the revolutionary gene-editing technology. But there’s a lot more at stake than just who gets the credit and licensing fees.
Philosophically speaking our smartphones could be seen as an extension of us. But where does that leave us legally?
The International Summit on Human Gene Editing drew a distinction between editing an individual’s body cells and editing germline cells that would pass changes to future generations. Does that make sense?
Experts from around the world are in the US to discuss the scientific, ethical and governance issues linked to human gene editing. Here are five reasons they shouldn’t ban research in the field.
The debate about regulating gene editing technology is often couched in polar terms, but understanding degrees of regulation that might be a better approach.
Some scientists claim a pill that would have us living healthier lives for longer is less than a generation away. But many philosophers argue extended life may not be as good as it sounds.
Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
US row might suggest using feotal tissue is new - in fact it’s not only a long-held practice, but essential for many medical breakthroughs.
On Human Experiments - The Nazi experiments during World War II were among the most egregious instances of unethical human research. But does that mean we can’t use the data they generated?
That genetic editing techniques have become as straightforward as they have poses questions for how we want them to be used.
When a family member dies from a disease caused by a genetic mutation, doctors have to decide whether to share the deceased person’s test results with the rest of the family.
The extent of the current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has belatedly focused the attention of non-governmental organisations, local and Western governments, and international media. What we haven’t…
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist, University of Cincinnati
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
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Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Professor of Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Monash University
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Infectious Disease Ethics Fellow, Ethox & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Univeristy of Oxford. Adjunct, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Medical Ethics, Bond University
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
