Tag: bioethics
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SEAC 2016: Dr. Leslie Francis
The Significance of Injustice for Bioethics [The following talk was given at the 18th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum. The Dale Ethics Center was a co-sponsor of the event.] Dr. Leslie Francis holds joint appointments as the Alfred C. Emery professor of law and professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and…
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CRISPR – Genome Editing
What is CRISPR? CRISPR an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, you are not alone. But the moral importance of understanding this new technology is extremley important to bioethicists, and should be important to the rest of us. In this recent TED talk, Ellen Jorgensen explains…