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Staying Human

Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings

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End of Life •
Eugenics •
Reproductive Technology •
Enhancement •
Beginning of Life •
Human Dignity •
Medicine •
Transhumanism •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brad Littlejohn
  • Clare Morell
  • Emma Waters

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell, Emma Waters

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Alexander Raikin

A Pattern of Noncompliance

Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.

Alexander Raikin

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Sara Hendren

Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out

From: What We Should Build

Sara Hendren

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Matthew Loftus

Arcs of Life

A just society does not kill suffering people, it shares their burden.

Matthew Loftus

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Alexander Raikin

No Other Options

Newly revealed documents depict a Canadian euthanasia regime that efficiently ushers the vulnerable to a “beautiful” death.

Alexander Raikin

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Joshua Briscoe

Dying, But Not Alone

We can’t escape the social dimension of choosing how we die.

Joshua Briscoe

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Joseph E. Davis
  • Paul Scherz

Recovering Old Age

Covid has laid bare our warehousing attitude toward the elderly. Have we forgotten what aging is for?

Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz

Review | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • James Mumford

A Bioethics of the Strong

Fixated on autonomy, liberal bioethics forgets its mandate to protect the weak.

James Mumford

Essay | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Alan Rubenstein

Custodians of the Body

Our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead.

Alan Rubenstein

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Aaron Kheriaty

First, Take No Stand

On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”

Aaron Kheriaty

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