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Deus Sex Machina by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics (cross-posted on Sentient Developments ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve our lives (sometimes....well, at l ... Read on »

Deus Sex Machina by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics (cross-posted on Sentient Developments ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve our lives (sometimes....well, at l ... Read on »

An Open Letter to Future Bioethicists by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I couldn't attend the ASBH meeting in DC this year, but apparently, Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel gave quite a controversial speech. While I don't have the text of the or ... Read on »

When Does Life Begin and End? -- the Debate Continues by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Frederick Grinnell of Oxford University press in his blog post, Redefining Death — Again responds to the recent Nature editorial, “Delimiting death.” Grinnel ... Read on »

Progress in Bioethics - MIT Press by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the appli ... Read on »

Kudos to Susan M. Wolf for her election to the IOM by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics You may have noticed that we have been on hiatus, while we revamp and reorganize our blog, but I wanted to take this opportunity to give credit where credit is due: One of my ... Read on »

The French health care system by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Many countries envy the French health care system. The difficult reformation that is involved itself to the United States reminds me the fight of the French workers to obtain ... Read on »

Bookclub Selection: Normal At Any Cost by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Women's Bioethics Project's July 2009 non-fiction bookclub selection is: Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height ... Read on »

Empire State will pay for human eggs for research use by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics According to The Scientist, the Empire State Stem Cell Board determined last week that it's ethical to pay women to obtain eggs for use in stem-cell research . The ESSCB poin ... Read on »

Some articles on our radar screen this past week... by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Autonomy and Authenticity of Enhanced Personality Traits Abstract: There is concern that the use of neuroenhancements to alter character traits undermines consumer's authentic ... Read on »

Obama at the AMA: The cost of inaction is greater by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics (Some key excerpts: the entire speech can beseen here.) Today, we are spending over $2 trillion a year on health care – almost 50 percent more per person than the next m ... Read on »

Should Politics and Values Be Removed from Science? by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society and WBP supporter, Marcy Darnovsky argues in a new article in the Democracy Journal that for too long progr ... Read on »

Remarks of President Barack Obama to the American Medical Association by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Chicago, Illinois June 15, 2009 From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of t ... Read on »

Bioethics Student Scholar Forum by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics As part of the Women’s Bioethics Project’s “ Fresh Voices Initiative ” we are launching the Bioethics Student Scholar Forum featuring outstanding comme ... Read on »

Udo Schuklenk on the Murder of George Tilly by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Colleague and friend Udo Schuklenk agreed to do a guest post/cross-link from his blog about the recent murder of physician George Tilly: Another murder aimed at furthering the ... Read on »

Living Better Through Matriarchy by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Although it's not directly related to bioethics, I couldn't resist: 'Men Live Better Where Women Are In Charge'How does a matriarchy really work? Argentinian writer Ricardo Co ... Read on »

Of Mice and HuMice, Part Deux by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics We blogged about Clyven, the chimerical transgenic mouse with human intelligence, before; but now researchers have 'kicked it up a notch', by creating mice with the human vers ... Read on »

Excellence in Inter-American Health Awards by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) ( www.pahef.org/awards/)is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for the 2009 Call for Nominations of the ... Read on »

Turn on the Bright Lights, Baby... by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics First, there were glowing cats. Then, reports of glowing dogs. Now, glowing marmosets; The gene for express the green fluorescent protein in their skin was delivered to the ... Read on »

A Critical Link: The Environment and Women's Health Conference by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A Critical Link: The Environment and Women's Health Conference In recent years there has been an increased awareness of the connections between environmental contaminants, fer ... Read on »

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