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ELSI@UNC
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Friday Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
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The 2026 ELSI Congress will be June 22-24, in Chapel Hill, NC, and hybrid as well. We are accepting abstract submissions from January 16 – February 16. Please click on our website and contact us if you have questions. The UNC Team
Event start time: 09:00 am
Event end time: 05:00 pm
Recently, the Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling that a man, Angel Rivera, who provided sperm through an informal DIY at-home insemination for friends, did not automatically relinquish his parental rights. In 2019, same sex couple Ashley Brito and Jennifer Salas wanted to create a baby. IVF is a costly proposition, ranging from $15,000 to $20,000 per […]
It’s an unfortunate reality that in medical contexts, women’s pain continues to be ignored, overlooked, or treated as an acceptable part of what it means to be a woman and to experience menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. Medicine has a long, complicated history of dismissing, downplaying, and normalizing women’s pain, one that is inextricably linked to […]
As missions venture to more distant places or require a longer, sustained human presence, astronauts are exposed to a variety of physiological stressors and face extreme challenges to mental health. The circumstances of space voyages in extended deep space missions, such as round-trip missions to Mars lasting approximately 2.5 years, will increase feelings of isolation […]
Plenty of attention in bioethics is being directed toward regulating AI in health care. Grants and conferences are booming regarding privacy, transparency, bias, ownership, and reliability. Plenty of other conferences are examining whether and when AI will pose an existential threat to humanity. What has not gotten sufficient attention is the ethical challenge posed right now […]
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