hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 28 2008 | law, world, media, ethics, deafness, civil rights, reproduction
On April 12, British Deaf people are marching against Clause 14 (4) (9) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. The clause says that a British couple undergoing IVF *must* discard any deaf embryos, and instead choose a hearing embryo for implantation .
This is problematic for the Deaf community for two reasons: First, it takes away a Deaf couple's right (indeed, any person's right) to raise a Deaf child if they choose to use IVF technology. They view this as discriminatory and in violation of their reproductive rights. Second, and more globally, it opens the door to other frightening embryonic selection practices, such as selection against blacks, gays, or other racial, linguistic, or cultural minorities.
Oddly, IMO, high-ranking British newspapers are spinning this as the Deaf community's desire to have "designer" deaf babies. One might expect them to see the broader implications and take up the cause...but ignorance apparently has the day.
ShareViewed: 3 Times- hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 15 2008 | obama, brain, neuroscience, ethics, neuroethics
If you're a skeptical kind of person, "neuromarketing" might be a better name for what's really going on here.
Quoted: CNN is pushing the latest neuropunditry data on the 2008 presidential primaries. In a video segment that first aired this morning, reporter Randi Kaye tries to avert a replay of the New Hampshire polling fiasco by getting at what's going on inside the mind
ShareViewed: 6 Times - hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 17 2007 | science, technology, law, ethics
Quoted: Welcome to www.ScientificLawyer.com The Scientific Lawyer reviews scientific literature of interest to lawyers and legal scholars. For a digest of each category, click the picture ...
- hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2007 | ethics, health
Quoted: The Online Research Ethics Course developed through the Practical Ethics Center at the University of Montana with Office of Research Integrity (ORI) support during the 2002-03 academic year.
- hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2007 | ethics, world
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- hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2007 | world, news, ethics
A victory for informed consent.
Quoted: Chinese medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families. The agreement was ...
- hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - May 04 2007 | ethics, books
intro to medical ethics.
Quoted: Amazon.com: Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine with Free Ethics PowerWeb: Books: Bonnie Steinbock,John D. Arras,Alex John London by Bonnie Steinbock,John D. Arras,Alex John London
ShareViewed: 3 Times - hknapp | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 15 2007 | ethics, health, law
nice resource....
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- Tosh - Oct 04 2007
- milolutz - Oct 05 2007
You must be Heather's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Yeah, the source of funding is more interesting than the results of these kinds of studies, no?
quantitative methods can't in and of themselves prove causality; only correlation. The media always confuse this.
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