Creating and selling embryos for “donation”: ethical challenges

Creating Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners: Interaction, Reasoning and Ethical Challenges

Technology for supporting people in their daily lives such as personal assistant agents and smart homes carry great potential for making our lives more connected, healthy, efficient and safe by executing tasks on our behalf and guiding our actions. We make two key observations: 1) supportive technology is inherently social in the sense that its support to a user is subject to norms from people ...

An approach to the ethical donation of human embryos for harvest of stem cells.

This paper considers embryo grading within a given infertility treatment and suggests an ethical approach to embryo donation for embryonic stem cell harvest. It is concluded that ethical considerations regarding human embryos do not necessarily preclude the use of certain embryos for biomedical research or transplantation. The argument is based on the following rationale: all embryos are not ph...

Creating human embryos for research: a scientist's perspective on managing the legal and ethical issues.

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

A proposal for ethical organ donation.