by Alexis DUPORT | 19 Jun, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rendered its judgement in a case involving the Secretary of State for Health, accused of denying women living in Northern Ireland free access to Abortion in England. With a majority of 2 out of 3, the Supreme Court...
by Alexis DUPORT | 19 Jun, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Should one invoke Ethics or morality? Though this question is not a new one, the distinction resurfaces every time the field of action of science is about to be extended. As if to justify certain transgressive practices. François-Xavier Putallaz[1], professor of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 12 Jun, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
During the symposium’s opening lecture “Criticism of transhumanist reason”, held at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris on May 19th and 20th, Jacques Testart, procreation biologist and father of the first French “test-tube” baby, went over all at stake concerning...
by Alexis DUPORT | 12 Jun, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
During the opening lecture “Criticism of transhumanist reason” of the symposium held at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris on May 19th and 20th, Jacques Testart, procreation biologist and father of the first French “test-tube” baby, went over all at stake concerning...
by Alexis DUPORT | 12 Jun, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
“Resist transhumanism” is the inauguration lecture given at the symposium “criticism of transhumanist reason”, which took place at the Collège des Bernardins in France, last May 19th and 20th. It came as a conclusion of the symposium “Humanism, transhumanism,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
While the tribunal of Limoges has just recognised the university hospital of Limoges as guilty for having not diagnosed Down Syndrome in a child, Danielle Moyse, philosopher and expert for Gènéthique, questions the legitimate reasons for compensating families who were...