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3The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments about TransplantationBloomsbury Academic. 2023.As the demand for organs begins to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode. The complex ethical web that constitutes this worldwide trade in organs and tissues is analysed by former health professional and medical ethics expert, Trevor Stammers. Key philosophical questions concerning existence, consciousness, and the right to life, connect organ donation and …Read more
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5An end of year ethical smorgasbordThe New Bioethics 28 (4): 297-298. 2022.This issue provides an end of year feast with something for everyone. Browning and Veit note how, since the presence of sentience in mammals, birds and cephalopods received official scientific reco...
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19The Human Gene Editing Debate (review)The New Bioethics 29 (1): 77-80. 2022.Amidst a plethora of books about human genome engineering (HGE), this one by John H Evans, a professor of sociology in the United States, stands out with its original and interesting take on how th...
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35Special issues and current controversiesThe New Bioethics 28 (3): 195-195. 2022.In 2017, The New Bioethics published its first special-themed issue on the topic of personalized medicine. It proved highly popular, especially Gyawali and Sullivan’s paper ‘Economics of Can...
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26Organ trafficking: why do healthcare professionals engage in it?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (3): 368-378. 2022.Organ trafficking in all its various forms is an international crime which could be entirely eliminated if healthcare professionals refused to participate in or be complicit with it. Types of organ trafficking are defined and principal international declarations and resolutions concerning it are discussed. The evidence for the involvement of healthcare professionals is illustrated with examples from South Africa and China. The ways in which healthcare professionals directly or indirectly perpetu…Read more
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42Present policies and possible futuresThe New Bioethics 28 (2): 95-96. 2022.‘There is a tide in the affairs of men.Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;’Those who edit academic journals rarely seek fortune in finan...
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16Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and ‘Playing God’ (review)The New Bioethics 28 (2): 191-193. 2022.Arising from a research project from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge, UK, this primer on gene editing is written by a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Divinity...
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22Covid-19 and arguments about abortionThe New Bioethics 28 (1): 1-3. 2022.Covid-19 and arguments related to abortion – these two topics between them take up the majority of the pages of this issue. That the first of these should do so, is no surprise. Over two years on f...
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8Data, disability and research on the deadThe New Bioethics 27 (4): 293-294. 2021.One of the insights gained from editing a journal is to see early trends in the research topics of submissions. The ethics of data management in healthcare is an issue on which we have published a...
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15Chirality, clarification and cautionThe New Bioethics 27 (3): 195-196. 2021.I suspect that most readers will, like me, be unfamiliar with the concept of chirality. Indeed I had never heard of the term before reading Dahlen’s paper proposing the completely novel concept of...
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6A year of CovidThe New Bioethics 27 (2): 103-104. 2021.In last June's themed issue on environmental bioethics, presciently planned in early 2019, we published in addition our very first paper on Covid-19 – a critique of the British Medical Association'...
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23Is it possible, ethically speaking, to create posthuman and transhuman persons from a religious perspective? Who is responsible for post and transhuman creation? Can post and transhuman persons be morally accountable? Addressing such pressing ethical questions around post and transhuman creation, this volume considers the philosophical and theological arguments that define and stimulate contemporary debate. Contributors consider the full implications of creating post and transhuman beings by hig…Read more
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10Conflicts, Conscientious Objection and CompromiseThe New Bioethics 27 (1): 1-2. 2021.Bioethics is not a field for the faint-hearted. Life and death decisions are both at stake and everything in between. Increasingly, before-life decisions are being taken as well and this issue comm...
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15European bioethics – from cyborgs to surrogacyThe New Bioethics 26 (3): 195-196. 2020.Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 195-196.
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20Nature bites backThe New Bioethics 26 (2): 81-81. 2020.Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 81-81.
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133To Infinity and Beyond?The New Bioethics 25 (4): 293-294. 2019.Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2019, Page 293-294.
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14Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability and the Stories we Tell Ourselves (review)The New Bioethics 26 (3): 278-281. 2019.‘This book is the record of an exploration. I am a writer, a non-specialist in a specialist's wilderness and I find my way with a writer's tools’. Just as we should never judge a book by i...
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139New Lamps for Old?The New Bioethics 25 (2): 101-102. 2019.Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2019, Page 101-102.
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152Transitional StatesThe New Bioethics 25 (1): 1-2. 2019.Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 1-2.
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17Frankenstein – Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds (review)The New Bioethics 25 (1): 97-100. 2019.Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 97-100.
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196New Horizons for The New BioethicsThe New Bioethics 24 (3): 197-198. 2018.Editorial for issue with articles on tranhumanism, principlism, total body transplants and inter-uterine surgery for myelomeningocele
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58Peter Singer’s Ethics: A Critical Appraisal (review)The New Bioethics 24 (3): 268-270. 2018.Utilitarianism Meta-ethics
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105Paired papersThe New Bioethics 24 (2): 105-105. 2018.Editorial on papers relating to among other infanticide and intersex
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105All of Life Is HereThe New Bioethics 23 (2): 105-106. 2017.A review of the range of articles in the summer issue of The New Bioethics
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54Book review: Mann S 2010: Bioethics in perspective; corporate power, public health and political economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 287 pp. GBP17.99 . ISBN: 978 0 521 75656 3 (review)Nursing Ethics 18 (3): 458-458. 2011.
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140Editorial for New Bioethics Volume 21.1New Bioethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body 21 (1). 2015.Editorial for latest issue introducing papers from a symposium held as part of the Irish President's Initiative on Bioethics and others questioning whether autonomy is losing its influence as a predominant principle in bioethics
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16EditorialHuman Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 17 (2). 2011.Ediorial Content Type Journal Article Category Editorial Pages 139-140 DOI 10.1558/hrge.v17i2.139 Authors Trevor Stammers, St Mary’s University College, London Journal Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics Online ISSN 2043-0469 Print ISSN 1028-7825 Journal Volume Volume 17 Journal Issue Volume 17, Number 2 / 2011
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166Bioethics at the Movies, by Sandra Shapshay (review)Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 16 (2): 245-246. 2010.
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