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The Embryo Project (2007-2009)
This project explores embryo research within historically changing complex contexts over time, and therefore provides a detailed case study of rapidly changing science within radically contested contexts.
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Justice for All (2004-2011)
Advances in the science and technology of genetics and genomics promise to radically transform health care and introduce new possibilities for human enhancement, likely resulting in the creation of novel kinds of beings. With the prospect of such revolutionary change comes a pressing need to critically examine issues of justice between generations; between those who are living and those who are not yet born.
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Conceptual and Ethical Issues at the Intersection of Genomics, Developmental Biology, Ecology, & Health II (2003-2006)
This research critically examines the morality of crossing species boundaries in the context of emerging research that involves combining human and non-human animals at the genetic or cellular level.
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Our Cells/Ourselves: The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2003-2005)
This foundational research will revisit and critically examine arguments from multiple faith and philosophical perspectives regarding the moral status of developing human life. The legal and policy implications of these diverse perspectives will be considered with particular attention to whether and how these perspectives do, or do not, inform public policy.
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Model Systems Strategic Research Network (2003-2005)
The Model Systems Strategic Research Network addresses a range of conceptual and ethical issues relevant to (1) the selection of model systems and (2) the creation of novel model systems (such as chimeras), with a view to developing an ethics framework for the design of pre-clinical stem cell research involving animal models, humanized animal models, and the creation of embryonic or foetal chimeras.
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Stem Cell Genomics and Therapeutics Network (2001-2006)
The goals of this project are to develop ethical, legal, cultural, and religious perspectives consistent with Canadian values, on issues related to the source of the material used for human stem cell research.
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Gene Therapy for Neurological Disease (2001-2004)
This project has a double focus: 1) to integrate ethical analysis into every stage of the project, with the intent of offering guidance and developing procedures or guidelines for the ethical conduct of both early research and eventual clinical trials; and 2) to contribute to the reflection and debate within the literature of our own disciplines in ethics by addressing issues raised by the scientific portion of the project.
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Population Health and the Human Genome: Conceptual and Ethical Issues (2001-2003)
Most bioethical analyses of genetics and genomics focus on the interests of individuals, especially concerning privacy and discrimination. This research will show that the health of populations should be the central focus of bioethical work on the health implications of genetics and genomics research.
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Justice for All: Novel Genetic Technologies and Obligations to Future Generations (2001-2002)
According to Martin Golding, our obligation to future generations is to do that which "promotes, or perhaps even embodies, good living for future persons." In the abstract this seems reasonable; in practice, however, the difficulty is in knowing what applications of genetic knowledge might further this objective, and whether these applications satisfy obligations to present generations.
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Ethnicity, Citizenship, Family: Identity After the Human Genome Project (2000-2002)
The aim of this project is to establish an interdisciplinary working group of scholars who will develop the language, criteria, and conceptual framework for exploring issues related to genetic variation research and social identity.
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Our Cells/Ourselves: Human Biotechnology, Ethics and Public Policy in the New Millennium (2000-2001)
Biotechnology promises to transform agriculture, health care, aquaculture, forestry, mining and environmental services. This prospect raises profound ethical, legal, and social questions regarding the use of biotechnology. The goal is to identify non-vacuous ethical principles that can provide prescriptive guidance to Canadian policy-makers for the technologies that are the focus of this project, and for human biotechnology more generally.
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