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VOL. 10 NO. 7 | July 2010

The American Journal of Bioethics | Volume 10 Number 7

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Editorial

Disaster in the Gulf: Public Health and Public Responsibility
by Summer Johnson

Target Articles

Should Human Beings Have Sex? Sexual Dimorphism and Human Enhancement
by Robert Sparrow

Open Peer Commentary

Sex, Romance, and Research Subjects: An Ethical Exploration
by Timothy F. Murphy

Open Peer Commentary

Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-Technological Devices Have Moral Status?
by Fabrice Jotterand

Open Peer Commentary Book Reviews

Review of The Ethics of Consent, eds. Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer
by Jessica W. Berg

Correspondence

Why Bioethicists Still Need to Think More About Sex...
by Robert Sparrow

Sex Redux
by Timothy F. Murphy

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-Technological Devices Have Moral Status?”
by Fabrice Jotterand

BIOETHICS NEWS

Transplant Recipients See National Sports Games as Inspiration For Living
(San Jose Mercury News) Think of it as the LiveStrong Games, but everyone is competing with someone else's organs.

Letting Go
(The New Yorker) What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

Many Outraged as Accused Murderer Gets Liver Transplant
(MSNBC) Should doctors have given organ to someone else on long waiting list?

Peak Oil and Climate Change: Between Too Soon and Not Soon Enough
(Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies) We need to make extraordinary advances in energy sources, and we have to do if fast, or, to put it simply, the 22nd century will look like the 17th. We need to constrain our use of fossil fuels as much as possible.

Moral Questions in the Ancient Art of Human Enhancement
(Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies) Somewhere along the line we’ve developed the habit of announcing that, thanks to new technologies, we’re forever on the verge of revolutionizing what it means to be human.

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