Marcy Darnovsky

As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic modification has been debated for decades; the prevailing position in international policy and human rights documents has been that, due to its numerous safety and social risks, it should be lega...

First monkeys, and then us? There are good reasons why human reproductive cloning must stay off limits, says Marcy Darnovsky

The authors regret that the reference “Dickenson, 2012” was incomplete in the reference list. Full reference details are given below: Dickenson, D., 2012. Bioethics: All That Matters. Hodder Education, London. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The terminology used to discuss third-party reproduction, as with other new biomedical processes, can ease or impede communication and even influence behaviour. In an effort to sensitize analysts and stakeholders to variations in terminology and to facilitate communication on issues arising from international surrogacy arrangements, this paper exam...

Regulators consider radical biological procedures.

Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century. Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the application of its fu...

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