by Heather Zeiger | Apr 16, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Science, Society, Technology
I have a new article in Quartz, an online publication that hits a wide audience and is geared toward the global business community. Find my article here, “Pigs with human hearts, and other wild tales from the future of organ donation.” I had been...
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 | Mar 10, 2016 | Announcements
I have a new article in Christian Research Journal (by subscription only) that discusses the ethics of altruistic and commercial surrogacy. I look at Jennifer Lahl’s documentary, Breeders: A sub-class of women, where she interviews former surrogates. For this...
by Heather Zeiger | Mar 10, 2016 | Ethics, Technology
In grad school I wrote a paper about Asimov’s three laws of robotics and whether they were analogous to an ethical system called divine command theory. I thought I was being clever since robots are programmed to do certain things, and a “good” robot does what it is...
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.
