by Heather Zeiger | Apr 5, 2016 | Announcements, Society, Technology
I have a new article at a new venue for me. MercatorNet is an international online publication that is dedicated to re-framing ethical and policy debates in terms of human dignity. My article is on bodyhackers, people who take a “hacker’s approach”...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 10, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Human Dignity, Science, Society, Technology
I have a new article at The Stream on the U.S.’s Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that the FDA approve mitochondrial transfer, or what is being called “three-parent IVF” in the media. Read about it here.
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 28, 2016 | Ethics, Science, Society
The recent issue of Scientific American has an article by Carl Erik Fisher, a psychiatrist and bioethics professor at Columbia University, in which he explores whether behavioral addictions are mental illnesses or just bad habits. His article, “Food, sex, gambling,...
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 19, 2016 | Ethics, Salvo, Science, Society
Check out my latest post at Salvo’s blog, Signs of the Times. I look at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on how the words “natural,” “unnatural,” and “nature” are used in the media, journals, and in other venues. In...
by Heather Zeiger | Nov 24, 2015 | Society, Technology
In light of other recent news, it was easy to ignore another star’s sordid life confessional. If you missed it, Charlie Sheen decided to disclose that he was diagnosed with HIV four years ago. His choice to go public was spurned by blackmail threats by one, or perhaps...
by Heather Zeiger | Nov 5, 2015 | Salvo, Science, Society, Technology
My latest post in Salvo’s Signs of the Times addresses a question posed by several researchers from Australia, The Netherlands, and the U.K. in a recent commentary in Nature Methods: What if stem cells turn into embryos in a dish? While it is not yet possible to...
