Enhancement

Do we need a morality pill?

Michael Cook | 30 January 2012

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer and a research assistant, Agata Sagan, proposed a “morality pill” in a column in the New York Times this week. They speculate that moral behaviour is at least in part biochemically determined. Hence, it should be possible to engineer moral behaviour with drugs. Here is the scenario that they paint:

Brother, can you spare some time?

Michael Cook | 02 December 2011

New Zealand writer-director made one of the all-time classic bioethics films, Gattaca, about the pursuit of genetic perfection. His latest is a thriller about life extension, In Time, with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The premise is that the world overlords have developed a robber baron technology for controlling population growth in the year 2061.

“Fixed” – new documentary on transhumanism and disability

Jared Yee | 24 August 2011

Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement”.

Julian Savulescu on power naps and other bioethical issues

Michael Cook | 17 June 2010

Euthanasia, Peter Singer &c.

Imagining designer deaf babies

Michael Cook | 12 December 2009

Children of the deaf oppose any kind of pre-natal diagnosis