bioethics

Artificial womb technology is approaching over the scientific horizon. Recent proof-of-principle experiments using foetal animals have prompted a new surge of bioethical interest in the topic: scholars have asked what ectogenesis would mean for individuals, family, oppressed groups, and society at large; how we can or should regulate the technology; and whose interests motivate ectogenic research…

Our property tradition has exactly two ways of aiming value at anything that is not a person: it can insert persons — guardians, trustees, the purpose trust's appointed enforcer — or it can confer personhood, as it did for the corporation, the idol, the river. For artificial minds the law has lately said no, loudly and repeatedly, and every enacted refusal on the record refuses the second move. N…

_Oxford Studies in Legal Philosophy_. forthcomingCoercion wrongs its victim, invalidates their exercises of normative power and transfers responsibility for their compliance to the coercer. The paper considers two theories of the normative significance of coercion. On a familiar account, one defended by writers such as Hart and Scanlon, coercion wrongs the coerced by depriving them of an option t…

The recording of the VolRethics Meet the Authors webinar with Dr. Jill A. Fisher, Women in Phase I Trials, is now available. If you missed the live event or would like to revisit the discussion, you can watch it here: https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/volrethics-meet-the-authors-webinar-with-jill-a-fisher-women-in-phase-i-trials/

_Zenodo_. 2026For most of recorded history, one fact needed no defense: whoever sat in judgment of a claim to personhood was, without exception, a product of the same biological process as the claimant being judged. No political theory, no legal system, and no religious tradition has ever had occasion to argue for this premise, because it was never false. Artificial intelligence capable of direct…

_International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC)_. forthcomingCopyright law's treatment of artificial intelligence is usually read as a narrow technical puzzle: may a machine-generated work be registered, and if so, in whose name? This article argues that the puzzle is more consequential than that framing suggests. Across the Berne Convention, United States, European Union…

What do we know about Lindsay Clancy's state of mind when she killed her children, and how may that be legally interpreted in Massachusetts?

_Jas Merah: Jurnal Hukum Dan Ahwal Al-Syakhsiyyah_ 5 (2):108-126. 2026Marriage within the framework of Islamic Legal Philosophy (Falsafah al-Tasyri') is fundamentally conceptualized not merely as a formal civil contract, but as a sacred covenant (mitsaqan ghalizha) oriented towards existential human welfare (maqashid syariah). However, the pervasive penetration of modern digital technology has sy…

_Scribd_. 2026This is a derivation of "The island of Dr. Moreau " by H. G. Wells, it deals with genetics, Lucretius, Empedocles and bioethics.

Dana-Farber is accepting applications for a post-doctoral research fellow to collaborate with faculty on ongoing and fellow-developed bioethics projects. This is a one-year fellowship with the potential for an additional year. Start date is flexible. Areas of focus include ethics … Read More

_The New Bioethics_. forthcomingThis article reexamines ethical and scientific objections to psychotherapeutic interventions that alter clients’ unwanted sexual attractions. While major mental-health organizations label such interventions as controversial, ineffective, and ethically problematic, recent studies demonstrate that some interventions can lead to changes in individuals’ sexual attracti…

Home / ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation: What It Means for Forensic Lab Hardware ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation has become the recognized benchmark for digital forensics labs seeking to demonstrate their results will hold up to scrutiny in court. Discussions about pursuing accreditation tend to focus heavily on documented procedures, staff training records, and quality management systems, and […]

National HIV responses are often compared through visible indicators such as estimated new infections, prevalence, and reported diagnoses. These indicators are indispensable, but they do not by themselves disclose why a trajectory has changed or whether a policy has addressed the conditions that sustain risk. Using Thailand and Indonesia as imperfect illustrative cases rather than exhaustive poli…

A study of more than 2,000 people in the United States and China finds that the line between medical and non-medical traits, which underpins the rules on embryo testing in most countries, does not match the preferences of the public.

When Psychiatry Fails Women: Lessons from the Lindsay Clancy Trial Lindsay Clancy is a former labor and delivery nurse who is on trial for the January 24, 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children. Clancy did not have a documented significant psychiatric history, but over a four-month period at the end of 2022, she developed […] The post In the News… When Psychiatry Fails Women: Lessons fro…