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Enhancing Animals is “Still Genetics”: Perspectives of Genome Scientists and Policymakers on Animal and Human Enhancement

December 23, 2024

Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes

October 30, 2024
Rebecca L. Walker is the author of chapter 41, “Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes” in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment, ed. Jesper Ryberg. Abstract: Despite orientation to goals that are in deep tension, medicine and state-sanctioned punishment have long cooperated. Involvement of physicians in...

Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes

October 30, 2024

Rebecca Walker on Nonhuman Animals in Human-Centered Science

September 16, 2024
In the AMA Journal of Ethics, Rebecca Walker shares a case and commentary on nonhuman animals used in human-centered science. The article “considers the ethical tension” between justifications for using nonhuman animals in research that benefits humans. Importantly, the commentary also suggests the importance of extending reasoning “beyond governning regulations...

How Should Clinician-Researchers Model Regard for Nonhuman Animals Bred for and Used in Human-Centered Science?

September 9, 2024

Machine Learning in Health Care: Ethical Considerations Tied to Privacy, Interpretability, and Bias

July 30, 2024

Challenging the Boundaries Between Treatment, Prevention, and Enhancement in Human Genome Editing

July 23, 2024

Care or Complicity? Medical Personnel in Prisons

February 23, 2024

Virtue Ethics and Animal Moral Status

October 17, 2023

Rebecca L. Walker on The Value of a Life | TED-Ed

November 10, 2022
Rebecca L. Walker was part of the latest installment of the Parr Center’s Ethical Dilemma series with TED-Ed, this time on the value of a life with bioethicist.