Staying Human

While Bioethics Fiddles

As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games

What Happened to Bioethics?

Why biomedical research doesn’t roil national politics anymore — and the thin hope offered by the last time it did

Responsible Frankensteins?

The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically

From: Frankenstein at 200

Human Gene Editing Arrives in America

Reflections on the Instrumentalization of Human Life

On the Shelf

Short reviews of books on the opioid epidemic, the crisis of authority, Silicon Valley, the “new eugenics,” and more

Is There an ‘Unmet Need’ for Family Planning?

The flawed concept behind efforts to increase global contraceptive use

Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions

On using CRISPR to help patients and design our descendants

Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning

From: The Threat of Human Cloning

Part Five: Recommendations

From: The Threat of Human Cloning

Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States

From: The Threat of Human Cloning