Bioethics Web Resource of the Week

This week I'll call your attention to the developing Bio-Ethics Bites page at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. The first seven of ten planned podcasts are up, and feature Tim Lewens on selling organs, Jonathan Wolff on political bioethics, Onora O'Neill on trust, Nick Bostrom on status-quo bias, Jeff McMahan on moral status, Peter Singer on life and death, and Julian Savulescu on designer babies.

Bioethics Web Resource of the Week

This week's Bioethics Web Resource is the Hastings Center's Bioethics Briefing Book, freely available online here. The book features politically-neutral articles by top experts on a very broad range of bioethics topics. It's designed to supply sophisticated background to journalists and members of the general public. One look at the table of contents and I bet you'll click through to something or other. Previous BWRW's are here and here.

Bioethics Web Resource of the Week

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has a great page, here, summarizing a number of European countries' policies on human reproduction, especially embryo research and the currently hot question of gamete donor anonymity. And while we're looking at assisted reproduction, check out the Global IVF map here; and the IVF insurance-status information here.

Bioethics Web Resource of the Week

And speaking of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, why not name their collection of excellent, free, downloadable reports on a wide variety of bioethics issues as the first of my planned weekly "Bioethics Web Resources" posts? Here you'll find material on the bioethics of dementia, biofuels, the use of animals as research subjects, GM crops, personalized medicine, stem-cell research and more.