Ethical issues raised by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing
Congratulations! You are the lucky winner of a Stanford Hospital/Medical Center trifecta. You'll notice that my co-blogger-in-crime, Bradley Kreit, wrote the other day about the hospital's experimental drive-thu ER program, and I recently blogged about its new in-patient menu. Although Stanford is in our backyard, I promise you that has nothing to do with our sudden focus on news from there. Nonetheless, here is our third item in a row.
- Vivian Distler's blog
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Simian Rights
This week, the Spanish Parliament approved resolutions calling on the executive to comply with the Great Ape Project, which seeks to extend many human rights to Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Orangutans and Gorillas.
Biocitizens and Advertizing
A recent piece in the NYT BITS blog has some interesting ramifications for our forecasts on biosocial identities and affinities. It discusses a set of “compromises” reached by the Network Advertising Initiative, an advertising trade association.
The lists of restrictions and red-flag categories represented here is about as culturally loaded as you can get, but what drew my attention was the way that biological identities, biological affinities, online collective organization were called out as particularly tricky areas of “behavioral correlation.”
- Miriam Lueck Avery's blog
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Biocitizens, Advertizing, and the Virtual Dead
A recent piece in the NYT BITS blog has some interesting ramifications for our forecasts on biosocial identities and affinities. It discusses a set of “compromises” reached by the Network Advertising Initiative, an advertising trade association.
The lists of restrictions and red-flag categories represented here is about as culturally loaded as you can get, but what drew my attention was the way that biological identities, biological affinities, online collective organization were called out as particularly tricky areas of “behavioral correlation.”
- Miriam Lueck Avery's blog
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The coming debate about brain enhancement
The New York Times recently had a pretty decent article about debates over brain enhancement in academia:
an era of doping may be looming in academia, and it has ignited a debate about policy and ethics that in some ways echoes the national controversy over performance enhancement accusations against elite athletes like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's blog
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