Back from Christchurch
Quick visit to Christchurch for an ICBC meeting. Main item on the agenda was discussion of the following: ERMA200223 – Application to develop in containment genetically modified goats, sheep and cows...
View ArticleTerry Pratchett on ‘assisted death’
Terry Pratchett on why ‘assisted death’ should be seriously considered – see Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal | Society | The Guardian. Of all the topics in ethics class last year,...
View ArticlePrinting body parts
3D printing has always intrigued me, but potentially using a 3D printing system to make replacement body parts is really interesting. See Printing body parts: Making a bit of me | The Economist.
View ArticleUntil Cryonics Do Us Part
It’s been a while since I looked at anything related to cryonics, having been more preoccupied lately with things related to religion, popular culture and/or new media, so I was interested to see this...
View ArticleBiotech and bioethics resources for schools and young people
Hat tip to New Life From Old for this link through to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s resources for schools and young people, including Stem cells – science and ethics –...
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Transhuman Films
The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in...
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Spirituality and Cancer: Christian Encounters
I’m looking forward to the book launch next week of “Spirituality and Cancer: Christian Encounters”, edited by my friends and colleagues Caroline Blyth (University of Auckland) and Tim Meadowcroft...
View ArticleDiscovering the need for ethics
A really interesting article by biochemist Jennifer Doudna about how she became aware of the ethical dimensions of developing a method for genome-editing and how it affected her. Moves from just...
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Free e-Book on quest for longevity
With my ongoing interest in the area of bioethics and transhumanism an email mentioning this free eBook from the University of Chicago Press piqued my interest today. Will load it up on the eReader and...
View ArticleOn Embryos and Spin | Center for Genetics and Society
An excellent op-ed piece on the way reporting of biotechnology is often reduced, unhelpfully and dangerously, to a “promise” vs. “peril” dichotomy. To do so ignores the many different positions that...
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