Tags: Bioethics
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From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
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Live Forever, Or Die Trying
Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
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Spare Parts
The scientific horror of Never Let Me Go
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Reason Writers Around Town: Kerry Howley on "Until Cryonics Do We Part" in The NY Times Magazine
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On Being a 21st-Century Peasant
An environmentalist warns: We’re getting a whole new planet.
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Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
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The Presidential Commission on Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life
Obama's new bioethics czar just wants us all to get along.
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Radical Life Extension and the Problem of Malthusian Hells
Is living longer in an overcrowded world better than the alternative?
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Bioethics and the Progressive Neocons
Some progressives have progressed so far that they've become technophobic reactionaries.
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Fresh Kidneys for Sale
International organ markets aren't the same as slave markets.
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The Abolition of Man?
Tell 'em that it's human nature.