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March 31, 2009

Hot Off The Presses! AJOB's April Issue is Here!

The American Journal of Bioethics’ April 2009 issue is now online with some timely and thought-provoking Target Articles that certain to catch your attention.…

March 12, 2009

Want a "Perfect Baby"? You're Gonna Have To Make It The Old-Fashioned Way.

That’s right, Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, who announced last month that they would be offering PGD for eye and hair color and other cosmetic traits, has now announced via their website that they are backing off of their plans, says Fox News.…

February 12, 2009

I Think Glenn McGee Predicted This Would Happen....

Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Los Angeles fertility clinic is offering parents the capacity to choose the traits of their child to allow them to make, um, “The Perfect Baby.”

The WSJ article, titled “A Baby, Please.…

January 9, 2009

The Wonders of Polyheme...By Press Release

In the time since my research group published numerous articles concerning community consultation in the trial of the oxygen-carrying blood substitute Polyheme, particularly the most recent trial, conducted in a number of institutions (all Level I trauma centers), Polyheme has been subjected to more criticism than any other substance ever tried under the FDA’s special exception allowing some research to be conducted without informed consent.…

January 9, 2009

Video, Video, Video...

The bioethics.net video library is opening, and soon, through iTunes and already some of the free video we plan to make available is sitting around on a half-baked You Tube page that you can access at youtube.com/bioethix as well as via bioethics.net.…

January 9, 2009

Will a Recession Mean that Botox Users Have to Use the 'Wisdom of Repugnance'? Maybe Not.

There’s great news for those of you who would prefer to hide any expression whatsoever on your face, particularly those of you who think that a smooth brow and forehead is the calling card of youth and virility.…

December 26, 2008

McGee Writes One of The Scientist's Most Controversial Columns of the Year

In an email sent out to The Scientist readers today, an article called “No More Periods-Period” by AJOB’s Editor-in-Chief Glenn McGee was noted as one of the most controversial columns of 2008.…

December 9, 2008

Glenn McGee at the Autism Hangout

Glenn McGee, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics and founder of the Institute for Ethics and Autism, was interviewed by the Autism Hangout to discuss ethical issues in autism.…

December 5, 2007

Glenn McGee in The Scientist: My Eye's On You

In his December column Glenn is thinking about how we’ll look at visual enhancements:

Picture-perfect vision, with lovely dark pupils and irises of any color you want.

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November 5, 2007

Glenn McGee in The Scientist: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?

In his column for November, Glenn argues that scientists and industry shouldn’t be the only ones making decisions about nanotechnology:

Just because I am an ethicist does not mean I am opposed to making money, particularly when it comes with solid scientific discoveries that benefit human kind.

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