Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Morality
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Bio-Ethics Bites
Bioethics is the study of the moral implications of new and emerging medical technologies and looks to answer questions such as selling organs, euthanasia and whether should we clone people....
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Listen to Bio-Ethics Bites, a Education podcast by Oxford University. Stream 10 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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10 episodesBrain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making
Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to al...
Responsibility
If someone caught me shoplifting, and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible? Should I be blamed? There's a gr...
Selling Organs
Everyday people die in hospitals because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. In most countries of the world - though not al...
Bio-Ethics Bites
Demand for health care is infinite, but money is finite. So how should we distribute resources? Whom should we help, and why?
Trust
Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in health care - for psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons; the...
Status Quo Bias
Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence. Nonetheless, if you asked the a...
Life and Death
If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself? If a patient...
Moral Status
A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult hum...
Designer Babies
The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to aff...
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