When Pigs Fly
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimenta...
April 22, 2019
Monkey See, Human Do: Cloning Macaque Monkeys with Fetal Cells
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. “How afraid of human cloning should we be?” “Monkeys have been cloned, Paving the way for human ...
January 26, 2018
Woolgathering: It’s a Bag, It’s a Baby, It’s an Artificial Womb!
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. An announcement last week took the science dream of an artificial womb one step closer to scienc...
May 8, 2017
Cecil the Lion: Can Health Care Professionals Ethically Be Sport Hunters
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In James Patterson’s book (and now TV miniseries) Zoo, the animals have acquired an intelligence...
July 30, 2015
Can Bioethicists (in Good Conscience) Watch the NFL?
by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. Every year the National Football League (NFL) makes between an estimated $7 billion- $9 billion mak...
January 26, 2015
A Monkey’s Uncle: A Nonhuman Person in an Argentinean Zoo
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A court in Argentina has ruled that Sandra, an orangutan is a nonhuman person who is deserving o...
December 29, 2014
Philosopher Calls for End to Animal Experimentation (and more): Is there a “reasonable” c...
by J.S. Blumenthal-Barby, MA, PhD According to Christine Korsgaard, one of the leading moral philosophers in the Western...
May 7, 2014