Also, in case you missed them, The New Atlantis has published a number of articles in recent issues that may be of interest to readers of this blog:
- What Is the Body Worth? – by yours truly, on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, various factual errors therein, and the bad case for human tissue markets
- Love, Yiddish, and the Problem of Bioethics – Darren J. Beattie on science and our erotic longing for knowledge
- Paid Parenthood – Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on why people sell their eggs and sperm
- The Population Control Holocaust – Robert Zubrin reveals the international campaign of coerced sterilization and abortion
- The Truth About Human Nature – Lee Perlman on imagination, rationality, and honesty in Gulliver’s Travels
- The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics – a special issue of the journal, dedicated to an updated report on stem cell research and an analysis of the debate over it
- The Global War Against Baby Girls – Nicholas Eberstadt on the mounting casualties of sex-selective abortion
- Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness – Stephen L. Talbott on survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms
- What Consciousness Is Not – Raymond Tallis unwinds the work of David Chalmers, philosopher of mind
- A Far Other Butterfly – Wilfred M. McClay on “The Artist of the Beautiful” and the meeting of the spiritual and material realms
The views, opinions and positions expressed by these authors and blogs are theirs and do not necessarily represent that of the Bioethics Research Library and Kennedy Institute of Ethics or Georgetown University.