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The case for and against self-regulation amongst the scientific community
All over the world researchers open copies of the latest journals, containing the latest scientific papers, confident that what is described there is...
Using technology for sporting achievement
Due to the extraordinary precision of electronic timing mechanisms, it is now possible to measure the performance of athletes within hundredths (...
On persons, human life and embryos: part two
This is the second of two articles by Simon Longstaff relating to the parliamentary debate about whether or not human embryos should be destroyed to...
On persons, human life and embryos: part one
Since John Lockhart QC delivered his review into embryonic stem cell research to the Federal Government in 2005, recommending that the laws...
Hybrid life
Patricia Piccinini is a contemporary artist whose troubling depictions of transgenic life portray many of the complex ethical issues around...
Ethical questions in a bio-engineered world
At the recent Fifth Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development, Harvard Professor Jonathan West said that when people look back in one hundred...
Genetic manipulation and bioethics
The past few years have seen tens of thousands of ordinary Australians donate approximately AU$4 million to help fund medical research into the cause...
Ethics and the business of biotechnology
Introduction While the realm of science fiction conjures up the extraordinary and fantastic, mere reality seems capable of rivalling the images of...
The still, quiet voice of conscience
Members of the Federal Parliament are currently engaging in a marathon debate about legislation that will allow the use of 'surplus embryos', created...
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