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    This is a must-read text for anyone interested in the ethics surrounding gene editing. The author, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas and director of their Developmental...
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    Book Reviews (review)
    with Matt James
    The New Bioethics 18 (1): 81-87. 2012.
    Reviews of "Ethics of Acquisition of Organs" by Dominic Wilkinson and "Peter Singer and Christian Ethics" by Charles Camosy
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    This chapter aims to raise the profile of organ trafficking among the academic community researching human trafficking in general. It explains how the various elements of organ trafficking are defined and how they relate to and differ from transplant tourism and organ markets. Some of the most important international declarations on organ trafficking are outlined, as well as some selective national legislation. Shifting global patterns of organ trafficking will be illustrated with an emphasis on…Read more
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    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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    An end of year ethical smorgasbord
    The 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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    The 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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    Special issues and current controversies
    The 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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    Organ 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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    Present policies and possible futures
    The 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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    Modifying 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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    Covid-19 and arguments about abortion
    The 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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    Data, disability and research on the dead
    The 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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    Chirality, clarification and caution
    The 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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    A year of Covid
    The 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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    Is 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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    Conflicts, Conscientious Objection and Compromise
    The 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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    European bioethics – from cyborgs to surrogacy
    The New Bioethics 26 (3): 195-196. 2020.
    Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 195-196.
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    Nature bites back
    The New Bioethics 26 (2): 81-81. 2020.
    Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 81-81.
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    To Infinity and Beyond?
    The New Bioethics 25 (4): 293-294. 2019.
    Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2019, Page 293-294.
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    Fables 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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    New Lamps for Old?
    The New Bioethics 25 (2): 101-102. 2019.
    Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2019, Page 101-102.
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    Transitional States
    The New Bioethics 25 (1): 1-2. 2019.
    Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 1-2.
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    Frankenstein – 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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    New Horizons for The New Bioethics
    The 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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    Peter Singer’s Ethics: A Critical Appraisal (review)
    The New Bioethics 24 (3): 268-270. 2018.
    Utilitarianism Meta-ethics
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    Paired papers
    The New Bioethics 24 (2): 105-105. 2018.
    Editorial on papers relating to among other infanticide and intersex
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    All of Life Is Here
    The 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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    Atlantic Crossings
    The New Bioethics 23 (3): 193-194. 2017.
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    Gene Editing and Journal Editing
    The New Bioethics 24 (1): 1-1. 2018.
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    Editorial
    Human 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