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Bioethics
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Developing World Bioethics: Call for Papers
The journal Developing World Bioethics is inviting submissions for a special issue on HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy and Reproductive Autonomy: Rights and Duties:HIV/AIDS has ethical and legal implications for reproductive health, not…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
More on Sex Selection
Last week I posted an excerpt from a recent New York Times article on sex selection (see Ethical Debate Over Sex Selection). For an interesting discussion on the issues raised…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Ethical Debate Over Sex-Selection
Denise Grady of the New York Times writes in Girl or Boy? As Fertility Technology Advances, So Does an Ethical Debate (Feb. 6):If people want to choose their baby’s sex…
PropertyProf Blog
Hypothecating Kidneys
By propertyprof
Over at the CoOp, Nate Oman has an interesting post on granting security interest in human body parts.Ben Barros[Comments are held for approval, so there will be some delay in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Kirsten Rabe Smolensky on Defining Life from the Perspective of Death
Kirsten Rabe Smolensky has posted Defining Life from the Perspective of Death: An Introduction to the Forced Symmetry Approach on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Abstract: Depending on one's…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Conference on The Implications of Reproductive Technologies on Parenthood
An international conference on The Implications of Reproductive Technologies on Parenthood at the Beginning of the 21st Century will be held on June 11- 13, 2007, in Netanya, Israel. The…
Cam Law
Consciousness pushes bounds of neuroscience yet again
Patients in a persistent vegetative state nonetheless have neurological consciousness, Time reported. Apparently, brain scans showed blood flow to active parts of the brain, which was "astonishing." But of course.…
Cam Law
Superluminal reality
"Superluminal" refers to faster-than-the-speed-of-light, which is the pace of accelerating technology, it seems. It's also a book by Tony Daniel - the first one I chose based on a robot's…
The Right Coast
Baby Abuse Mike Rappaport
Should deaf parents be allowed to select genes to ensure that their children are deaf? My immediate and continuing reaction is no, absolutely not. It may not be evil --…
PrawfsBlawg
“Smart Mice, Not So Smart People”
Main Thursday, November 16, 2006"Smart Mice, Not So Smart People"I was recently sent an advance copy of Arthur Caplan's most recent book Smart Mice, Not So Smart People. The book…