The Bioethics Podcast The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger interviews Yves Moreau, professor of engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research is located at the interface between artificial intelligence and genetics, focusing in particular on mass surveillance technology.



SHOW NOTES

"Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say," Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00170-0 



"US company must stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surveillance tech," The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4421537-us-company-must-stop-supplying-chinas-regime-with-dna-surveillance-tech/ 



"U.S.-made Dna Id Equipment Is Being Sold to Xinjiang’s Police," MindMatters, https://mindmatters.ai/2021/07/u-s-made-dna-id-equipment-is-being-sold-to-xinjiangs-police/ 



"China: Dna Phenotyping Profiles Racial Minorities," MindMatters, https://mindmatters.ai/2019/12/china-dna-phenotyping-profiles-racial-minorities/ 



"A Christian Response to Xinjiang: Technological Repression and Cultural Genocide," Dignitas, https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/a-christian-response-to-xinjiang-technological-repression-and-cultural-genocide 


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As you may know, April marks the end of our fiscal year, so our Executive Director, Dr. Eppinette, provides updates on some of the work we’ve been doing and some of the plans we have for the future.

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This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the second half of our own Barbenheimer, a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenhiemer were in theaters.

Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so, with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics.

In this episode, CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger presents a piece titled “The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology.”

INTERSECTIONS: "The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology"


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This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the first half of our own "Barbenheimer," a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were in theaters.

Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces in this episode and the next by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics.

In this episode, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema presents a piece titled “On Being Human: Reflections on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie.”

INTERSECTIONS: “On Being Human: Reflections on Greta Gerwig's Barbie Movie”


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In this talk, Dr. Stephen Greggo, Chair of the Counseling Department and Professor of Counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, part of our host institution, responds to and extends Dr. Megan Best’s presentation, which we featured on the previous episode of the bioethics podcast, on the moral status of the embryo and other ethical issues that arise at the beginning of life, which are especially relevant to the conversations happening in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling.

Our 31st annual summer conference is coming up in June, and Early Bird Pricing will be in effect through the month of March. For more information and to register, visit https://www.cbhd.org/conference


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The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling regarding cryogenically preserved human embryos raises numerous questions about the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the moral status of human embryos, the cryopreservation of embryos, the status of embryos as a matter of law, and more. 

These are questions that we at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity have been addressing for 30 years now. We have a number of resources on our website that speak to these and other questions surrounding reproductive technologies like IVF and the issues that arise from them.

For this episode of the podcast, we’ve chosen a presentation by Dr. Megan Best, an Associate Fellow of CBHD, a Researcher at the Institute of Ethics & Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and an honorary Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney.

In the presentation, Dr. Best looks at the moral status of the embryo and other ethical issues that arise at the beginning of life, which are especially relevant to the conversations happening in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling. 

I should also add that our next episode will feature a response by a psychologist and Christian counselor on how we can extend this conversation even further into our churches, so stay tuned for that! 


Video version of Dr. Best's presentation: YouTube
Alabama, Embryos, and Ethics at cbhd.org
CBHD resources on Reproductive Ethics




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