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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
Science Fiction •
Manual Competence •
Social Media •
Data Science •
Biotechnology •
History of Technology •
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Symposium | Winter 2004

Winter 2004

Biotechnology and the Good Life

Science and Self-Government
A More Child-Like Science
Man or Machine?
Methuselah and Us
Restless Souls

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Brendan Foht

The New Kinship Engineering

Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.

Brendan Foht

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Tess Doezema

Why Science Can’t Break the GMO Stalemate

The debate won’t be settled technocratically because it’s about technocracy itself.

Tess Doezema

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Brendan Foht

While Bioethics Fiddles

As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games

Brendan Foht

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Brendan Foht

Responsible Frankensteins?

The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically

From: Frankenstein at 200

Brendan Foht

Online Exclusive | July 28, 2017

July 28, 2017

  • Brendan Foht

Human Gene Editing Arrives in America

Reflections on the Instrumentalization of Human Life

Brendan Foht

Review | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

On the Shelf

Short reviews of books on the opioid epidemic, the crisis of authority, Silicon Valley, the “new eugenics,” and more

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Orsolya Ujj

European and American Views on Genetically Modified Foods

On the cultural and philosophical differences that explain contrasting beliefs and policies on GMOs

Orsolya Ujj

Essay | Winter 2016

Winter 2016

  • Brendan Foht

Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions

On using CRISPR to help patients and design our descendants

Brendan Foht

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