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Bioethics in the News - Spring 2006


Knox, Richard. "Preparing for a Pandemic? Fears of Health Care Rationing." NPR (February 10, 2006).

Kahn, Carrie. "New Orleans Hospital Staff Discussed Mercy Killing." NPR (February 16, 2006).

Campbell, Judy. "Execution Delayed Indefinitely in California." NPR (February 22, 2006).

Davey, Monica. "Vote Due on South Dakota Bill Banning Nearly All Abortions." New York Times, February 22, 2006.

Gross, Terry. "The Abortion Debate Through a Son's Eyes." NPR (March 2, 2006).

Leland, John, and Andrew Lehren. "Parental Notice Has Scant Effect on Teen Abortion." New York Times, March 06, 2006.

South Dakota Abortion Law HB 1215, signed by Governor Mike Rounds on March 6, 2006.

Weil, Elizabeth. "A Wrongful Birth?" New York Times, March 12, 2006.

Gross, Terry. "'Wrongful Birth' and Early Testing." NPR (March 16, 2006).

Prasad, Raekha. "Doctor jailed for girl abortion scan." Times Online, March 30, 2006.

Talk of the Nation. "Lessons of the Terri Schiavo Case." NPR (March 30, 2006).

The Leonard Lopate Show. "Terri Schiavo: Into the Eye of the Storm." WNYC Radio, March 30, 2006.

Wertheimer, Alan, and Ezekiel Emanuel. "Who Should Get Flu Vaccine When Not All Can?" Science 312 (May 12, 2006): 854-855.



Self-Regulation of Synthetic Biology


Prof. Drew Endy, who runs the biobrick group at MIT, has been interested in the ethics of biobricks (mostly focused on risk). People involved are in the process of self-regulating themselves, as happened 30 years ago at Asilomar.

On Friday 21 April 2006, the MIT synthetic biology working group hosted a town hall meeting to discuss a set of self-governance declarations proposed in a white paper by Stephen Maurer and colleagues from UC Berkeley:

Maurer, Stephen M., Keith V. Lucas, and Starr Terrell. "From Understanding to Action: Community-Based Options for Improving Safety and Security in Synthetic Biology." (PDF - 1.1 MB)#

The goal of the MIT town hall meeting was to discuss and improve, remove, or replace the declarations in the white paper. Any declarations left standing were considered for future discussion, debate, and ratification at the May 2006 SB2.0, the Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology.

OpenWetWare page on the SB2.0 Declaration (May 29, 2006).


 








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