This week, we learned a bit about ethical theory and discussed how animals are treated in different scenarios. Students can find my notes on ethical theory on the Scholar page. There are a couple options for you to blog on this week: First, you could answer the question prompt we didn’t get to in class: […]

From our student Amanda Hazy – a blog post for the class. In late September, NIH declared a funding moratorium on research working toward creation of human-animal chimeras. Recent research in this field has attempted to use animals to generate human organs for transplantation by injecting early animal embryos with human stem cells to direct […]

Today, we talked about informed consent, bodies as property, and education in the context of media and medical decision making, springboarding from our reading of the book _The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks_ by Rebecca Skloot. I heard the word “rational” decision making being thrown around a lot. What constitutes a rational decision? Can decisions be […]