Updated July 28, 2021
This is in no way a comprehensive list of every article out there on the listed topics—just those that I happened to have come across; do note that some of the links, especially for older articles, may be broken. For more of everything, check the sites listed under “Media”—and don’t forget the Bioethics sites & docs and Bioethics laws & regs pages.
Media
- Atlantic Science | Health
- CIRM (CA stem cell agency), The Stem Cellar
- Bioethics.com
- Bioethics.net
- Mercator.net (multiple sites within)
- National Geographic/Phenomena, incl:
- Laelaps (dinosaurs! archive)
- The Loom (Carl Zimmer; archive)
- Not Exactly Rocket Science (Ed Yong; archive)
- Only Human (archive)
- New Atlantis
- New Scientist
- ScienceDaily
- STAT
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, How to Think About Science (24 audio files) (2009)
~~~Articles~~~
Art/IVF/Donors/Gametes/Surrogacy
Enhancement (?)
Evolution
Genetics, stem cells, & regenerative medicine
Historical & governmental documents & archives
Human (mostly) experimentation
Inter-/trans-/variously-abled bodies & persons
Pregnancy & parenthood (everything, everything)
State & private actions/laws/regs
Testing, testing. . .
What’s it all about? (+miscellany)
ART/IVF/Donors/Gametes/Surrogacy
- C Bodenner, Your stories of infertility, Atlantic (occasionally updated; incl disc of donor gametes)
- M Osberg, Is boutique egg freezing a scam? Jezebel, 11.26.19
- R Klitzman, The US needs a sperm donor registry, Slate, 10.18.19
- G Bruney, Surrogacy makes the body a worksite, Jezebel, 7.25.19
- D Fox, The legal limbo of lost embryos, Vox, 7.3.19
- J Belluz, Sperm counts are falling. . ., Vox, 5.30.19
- S Zhang, The trouble with fathering 114 kids, Atlantic, 5.13.19
- S Zhang, A decades-old doctor’s secret leads to new fertility-fraud law, Atlantic, 5.7.19
- JL Grossman, Separated at birth: Fed court considers whether twins can be from different countries, Verdict, 3.12.19
- A Fetters, The changing norms around donor-sibling networks, Atlantic, 12.4.18
- R Viswanathan, 3 biological parents, 1 child, and an international controversy, Vox, 7.28.18
- G Cohen, et al, Disruptive reproductive technologies, Science Translational Medicine, 1.11.17
- B Zadrozny, ‘Crazy’ Vergara embryo case could open floodgates, Daily Beast, 12.8.16
- J Hamzelou, World’s first baby born with new ‘3 parent’ technique, New Scientist, 9.27.16
- JL Grossman, End of an era: New Jersey legalizes surrogacy , 29 years after Baby M, Verdict, 6.5.18
- E Barclay, Why more people are trying to get pregnant with donated frozen embryos, Vox, 5.9.16
- A Ghorayshi, The embryo crusader, Buzzfeed, 5.7.16
- M Goldberg, Is a surrogate a mother? Slate, 2.15.16
- T Lewin, Egg donor challenge pay rates, NYTimes, 10.16.15
- B Herman, IL court allows woman to use embryos made with ex, Raw Story/Int’al Business Times, 6.14.15
- J Culhane, Sperm donors are winning visitation rights, Slate, 2.20.15
- A Semuels, Sperm donor, life partner, Atlantic, 12.6.14
- R Strom, Frozen embryos: who do they belong to? Chicago Lawyer, 9.1.14
- J Grose, Surrogacy is a mess, Slate, 8.6.14
- J McDermott, The new baby boom, FT Magazine, 7.11.14
- T Lewin, Coming to US for baby, and womb to carry it, NY Times, 7.5.14
- T Marlan, Alien baby: Is your zygote American enough? Pacific Std, 5.14.14
- M Donegan, Over Easy, New Inquiry, 4.7.14
- J Lahl, Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore, Public Discourse, 3.5.14
- N Cahn & W Kramer, Let’s get rid of secrecy in donor-conceived families, Slate, 12.13.13
- J Kirby, These two American women want babies through Indian surrogates, New Republic, 12.10.13
- L Morgan Steiner, Who becomes a surrogate? Atlantic, 11.25.13
- A Hess, This Couple Is Angry About Expecting Twins, Slate, 9.3.13
- SE Richards, Get Used to Embryo Adoption, Time, 8.24.13
- M Change, Cheap IVF treatment, Huffington Post, 8.22.13
- A Sifferlin, How healthy are IVF babies? Time, 7.5.13
- J Shulevitz, Does a popular form of IVF cause autism? New Republic, 7.4.13
- A Tabarrok, The Great Canadian Sperm Shortage, Marginal Revolution, 6.18.13
- A Tabarrok, The Oocyte Cartel, Marginal Revolution, 6.17.13
- J Urist, There’s More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs, Atlantic, 5.14.13
- B Jarivs, Come and get it: how sperm became one of America’s hottest exports, The Verge, 4.2.13
- E Cohen, Surrogate offered $10,000 to abort baby, CNN, 3.6.13
- A Motluck, Is Egg Donation Dangerous? Maisonneuve, 1.21.13
- A Dreger, IVF on Steroids, Atlantic, 1.16.13
- J Sidhu, How To Buy a Daughter, Slate, 9.14.12
- R Bailey, The Ethics of Egg Freezing, Reason, 5.22.12
- R Smith, British man ‘fathered 600 children’ at own fertility clinic, Telegraph, 4.8.12
- N Collins, Sperm and egg donation ‘should be like giving blood’, Telegraph, 4.4.12
- SE Richards, Mother Country, Slate, 3.27.12
- AP, Study says women’s ovaries harbor rare egg-producing stem cells,. . . , Washington Post, 2.27.12
- M Farrell, Things I have learnt from and about IVF, Crooked Timber, 2.18.12
- D Pet, Make Me a Baby as Fast as You Can, Slate, 1.9.12
- S Barton, My Miraculous Conception, Slate, 11.28.11
- A Harmon, Getting to Know a Sperm-Donor Dad, NY Times, 10.20.11
- JB Lowder, Is Free, Private Sperm Donation a Good Idea? Slate, 10.4.11
- NS Roy, Protecting the Rights of Surrogate Mothers in India, NY Times, 10.4.11
- T Dokoupil, You Got Your Sperm Where? Newsweek, 10.2.11
- J Mroz, One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring, NY Times, 9.5.11
- A Schaffer, Examining the Mystery of Skeleton, Sugar and Sex, NY Times, 8.22.11
- E Painter Dollar, How Much Do Our Stories Matter? Christianity Today, 8.19.11
- E Painter Dollar, Three Stories About Reproductive Technology, Christianity Today, 8.18.11
- P Ford, “The Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Morning News, 7.11.11
- G Kolata, In Update on Sperm, Data Show No Decline, NY Times, 6.6.11
- M Thernstrom, Meet the Twiblings, NY Times, 12.29.10
- A Kuczynski, Her Body, My Baby, NY Times, 11.28.08
- New York Times—Assisted Reproductive Technology (collection of articles)
Enhancement (?)
- WG Johnson, et al, We are not ready to deal with gene-edited athletes, Slate, 12.10.19
- M Novak, US Army worries humanity is biased against deadly cyborg soldiers…, Gizmodo, 12.9.19
- Gross, MJ, The Pentagon’s push to program soldiers’ brains, Atlantic, 11.1.18
- L Frank, Can electronically stimulating your brain make you too happy? Atlantic, 3.21.18
- G Dvorsky, The most futuristic predictions that came true in 2014, io9, 12.29.14
- A Coghlan, The smart mouse with the half-human brain, New Scientist, 12.1.14
- G Stix, A mouse experiment suggests how we might one day sleep off toxic memories, Scientific American, 11.24.14
- V Turk, Mind-controlled prosthetics ready for real life, Motherboard, 10.8.14
- Z Itzvan, Singularity or transhumanism? Slate, 8.28.14
- M Kohn, The truth about smart drugs, BBC, 7.29.14
- M O’Connor, Is race plastic? My trip into the ‘ethnic plastic surgery’ minefield, NY Mag, 7.27.14
- P Dehahn, How technology could threaten deaf identity, Atlantic, 5.16.14
- C Delistraty, The ethics of erasing bad memories, Atlantic, 5.15.14
- C Allen, So you want to live forever, Weekly Std, 5.12..14
- A Madrigal, The not-so-distant future when we can all upgrade our brains, Atlantic, 5.12.14
- C Wilson, Childhood memories erased by growth of new brain cells, New Scientist, 5.8.14
- DB Dubal, et al, Life extension factor Klotho enhances cognition, Cell, 5. 8.14
- J Timmer, Factor of youth? ars technica, 5.5.14
- F Swain, How to live forever, BBC, 4.21.14
- Human Barbie Dolls, Kottke.org, 4.9.14
- A Schulman, Beware Responsible Discourse, New Atlantis, 3.18.14
- R Anderson, Hell on Earth, aeon, 3.13.14
- M Herman, Lance Armstrong says something interesting about players unions and doping, Pacific Standard, 11.7.13
- R Wiedeman, Searching for the perfect athlete, New Yorker, 7.31.13
- J Gamble, The end of sleep? Aeon, 4.10.13
- DN Lee, On Ethics and Self-Policing in (Citizen) Science, Scientific American, 2.22.13
- R Andersen, The Case for Using Drugs to Enhance Our Relationships, Atlantic, 1.31.13
- S Douglas, Choose Performance-Enhancing Hugs, Atlantic, 1.22.13
- G Dvorsky, Should we eliminate the human ability to feel pain?, iO9, 1.1.12
- K Andersen, Making Better People, Studio 360, 8.31.12
- D Dobbs, Careful Erasing Those Memories, Says the Memory Master, Wired, 3.6.12
- J Leher, The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever, Wired, 2.17.12
- B Allenby, N Agar, & K Munkittrick, Debating Extreme Human Enhancement, Slate, 9.13.11 [see rest of series under “view all entries”]
Evolution
- B Resnick, Scientists claim they’ve found the oldest human remains outside of Africa, Vox, 7.10.19
- E Yong, 2.4-million-year-old stone tools turn up in an unexpected place, Atlantic, 11.29.18
- E Yong, Male gorillas love hanging around with infants, Atlantic, 10.15.18
- D Fox, How liquifying brains changed the story of the human mind, Sapiens/Atlantic, 7.30.18
- S Zhang, The mystery of how Neanderthals got fire, Atlantic, 7.19.18
- R Meyer, Ancient humans lived in China 2.1 million years ago, Atlantic, 7.11.18
- S Zhang, Ancient DNA is rewriting human (and Neandertal) history, Atlantic, 3.14.18
- S Zhang, How one woman brought the ‘mother’s curse’ to Canada, Atlantic, 9.17.17
- E Yong, Scientists can now repaint butterfly wings, Atlantic, 9.18.17
- S Zhang, Huge DNA databases reveal the recent evolution of humans, Atlantic, 9.13.17
- E Yong, Decoding the origami that drives all life, Atlantic, 1.16.17
- A Fuentes & C Rouse, New articulations of biological difference in the 21st century, Anthropology Now, 12.20.16
- E Yong, Searching for the genes that are unique to humans, Atlantic, 10.13.15
- PZ Myers, Developmental plasticity is not Lamarkism, Pharyngula, 8.28.14
- C Zimmer, Evolution’s baby steps, Nat Geo, 8.27.14
- C Zimmer, Why do we have blood types? Mosaic, 7.15.14
- HA Orr, Stretch genes, NY Review of Books, 6.5.14
- A Fuentes, The Troublesome Ignorance of Nicholas Wade, HuffPo, 5.19.14
- PZ Myers, The state of modern evolutionary theory. . ., Pharyngula, 2.14.14
- David Dobbs, Die, Selfish Gene, Die, aeon 12.3.13, and two (favorable) responses by PZ Myers here and here
- C Zimmer, An Ancient, Mysterious Scrap of Human DNA, National Geographic, 12.4.13
- A Mitchell, DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All, NY Times, 1.30.12
Genetics, stem cells, & regenerative medicine
- K Weintraub, Genetic mutation in ‘CRISPR babies’ may shorten lifespan, Sci American, 6.3.19
- E Yong, The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day, Atlantic, 12.3.18
- E Yong, A reckless and needless use of gene editing on human embryos, Atlantic, 11.26.18
- S Zhang, 300 million letters of DNA are missing from the human genome, Atlantic, 11.28.18
- S Zhang, Big pharma would like your DNA, Atlantic, 7.27.18
- E Yong, An enormous study of the genes related to staying in school, Atlantic, 7.23.18
- B Plumer, et al, A simple guide to CRISPR, Vox, 7.23.18
- E Yong, How viruses cooperate to defeat CRISPR, Atlantic, 7.19.18
- S Raviv, When genetic diseases threaten patient privacy, Mosaic/Atlantic, 7.14.18
- S Zhang, The Y chromosome’s still-uncharted regions, Atlantic, 3.21.18
- H Ledford, CRISPR used to peer into human embryos’ first days, Nature, 9.20.17
- J Rasko & C Power, Dr Con Man, Guardian, 9.1.17 [on P Macchiarini, regen med]
- K Servick, Skepticism surfaces over CRISPR human embryo editing claims, Science, 8.31.17
- J Carlson, U of Minnesota bioethicist takes on clinics touting stem cell studies, Star-Tribune, 8.5.17
- AE Cha, First human embryo editing in US ‘corrects’ gene for heart condition, Washington Post, 8.2.17
- H Ma, et al, Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos, Nature, 8.2.17
- M Molteni, At ClinicalTrials.gov, untested stem cell clinics advertise for free! Wired, 7.19.17
- PZ Myers, Of pigs and people, Pharyngula, 1.27.17
- W Kremer, Paolo Macchiarini: A surgeon’s downfall, BBC, 9.10.16 [regenerative med]
- A Ramkumar, Stem cell clinics selling risky treatment explode across the US, Bloomberg, 6.30.16
- K Kaplan, Hundreds of companies in the US are selling unproven stem cell treatments. . ., LA Times, 6.30.16
- D Gorski, What’s the harm? stem cell tourism edition, Science Based Med, 6.27.16
- B Plumer, Gene drive. Learn the term…, Vox, 6.9.16
- D Goodyear, The stress test, New Yorker, 2.29.16
- J Gallagher, Excitement at new cancer treatment, BBC, 2.16.16
- M Specter, The gene hackers, New Yorker, 11.16.15
- H Ledford, Where in the world could the first CRISPR baby be born? Nature, 10.13.15
- D Cressey, A Abbott, & H Ledford, UK scientists apply for license to edit genes in human embryos, Nature, 9.18.15
- H Ledford, CRISPR, the disruptor, Nature, 6.3.15
- S Zhang, Everything you need to know about CRISPR, Gizmodo, 5.6.15
- C Zimmer, Talking about editing genes on the radio, Phenomena, 4.28.15 [includes audio link]
- G Kolata, Chinese scientists edit human embryo, raising concerns, NYTimes, 4.23.15
- D Cyranoski & S Reardon, Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos, Nature, 4.22.15
- C Zimmer, Editing human ebmryos: so this happened, Nat Geo, 4.22.15
- P Liang, et. al, CRISP/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes, Protein & Cell, 4.18.15
- T Jacobs, More evidence that intelligence is malleable, Pacific Standard, 3.20.15
- D Baltimore, et. al., A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification, Science, 3.19.15
- C Ainsworth, Sex redefined, Nature, 2.18.15
- I Sample, Scientists use skin cells to create artificial sperm and eggs, Guardian, 12.24.14
- D Mohammadi, Lab-grown bones will save patients. . . , RawStory/Observer, 12.7.14
- B Benyamin & P Visscher, Intelligence inheritance. . . , The Conversation, 9.8.14
- E Callaway, ‘Smart genes’ prove elusive, Nature, 9.3.14
- E Yong, The amateur geneticist who surprised science, Mosaic/BBC, 8.19.14
- PZ Myers, The Lyon hypothesis, nicely illustrated, Pharyngula, 7.15.14 [epigenetics: watch the video! and read the comments!]
- A MacIntyre, This vaccine just cured a 50-year old woman’s cancer, Vox, 5.15.14
- SJ Russell, et al, Remission of disseminated cancer after systemic oncolytic virotherapy, Mayo Clinic Proc, 5.13.14
- M White, Autism shows why disease is so hard to solve, Pacific Std, 5.9.14
- O Solon, Lab-grown cartilage used to reconstruct nostrils, Wired, 4.11.14
- A Duhaime-Ross, Lab-grown vaginas have been successfully implanted in four women, Verge, 4.10.14
- S Maddox, Voluntary movement shown in complete paralysis, OUPblog, 4.9.14
- L Clark, Electrical implants let paralysed patients stand again, Wired, 4.7.14
- P Mehta, There’s a Gene for That; Jacobin, Jan 2014
- EC Hayden, Ethics: Taboo Genetics, Nature, 10.2.13
- J Raff, The Discovery Institute challenged me. Here’s my response. Violent metaphors, 9.27.13. [read for discussion of basic genetics]
- D Dobbs, The Social Life of Genes, Pacific Standard, 9.3.13
- D Cyranoski, Stem cells: Egg engineers, Nature, 8.21.13
- M Bennett, Artificial organs in the new gilded age, Slate, 7.16.13
- A First: A human liver created from stem cells, Discovery.com, 7.5.13
- J Fessenden, UMMS scientists silence extra chromosome in Down syndrome cells, UMassMedNow, 7.17.13
- EC Hayden, Stem cell transplants may purge HIV, Nature, 7.3.13
- D Cyranoski, Human stem cells created by cloning embryos, Nature, 5.15.13
- M Healy, Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells, LA Times, 5.15.13
- L Kennelly, Cambridge scientists discover quadruple-helix DNA in human cells, Varsity, 1.28.13
- Stem cells may transform the development of new drugs, Economist, 1.12.13
- L Abrams, 2013: Year of the Stem Cell, Atlantic, 12.28.12
- Induced-pluripotent stem cells not as genetically unstable as previously thought, News-medical, 11.19.12
- R Stein, Geneticists Breach Ethical Taboo By Changing Genes Across Generations, NPR, 10.24.12
- R Stein, Scientists Create Fertile Eggs from Mouse Stem Cells, NPR, 10.5.12
- Brown, Mouse stem cells used to produce eggs. . . , LA Times, 10.5.12
- H Fountain, Human Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding, NY Times, 9.16.12
- Stem cells beat kidney rejection, BBC News, 3.8.12
- E Young, Will we ever grow organs? Discover, 2.28.12
- S Chemaly, What do artificial wombs mean for women? RH Reality Check, 2.23.13
- E Callaway, Give your eggs to science, get paid, suggests new report, Nature News Blog, 10.10.11
- N Wade, After Setbacks in Harvesting Stem Cells, a New Approach Shows Promise, NY Times, 10.6.11
- Sandwalk (Larry Moran), What’s In Your Genome? 5.8.11
- Ed Young, Research into reprogrammed stem cells: an interactive timeline, Discover, 2.2.11
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Human Gene Transfer Research Scope Note 24 (2011)
- CQ Choi, Cell-off: Induced pluripotent stem cells fall short of potential found in embryonic stem cells, Scientific American, 2.11.10
- W Saleton, The Organ Factory: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Slate, July 2005
Historical & governmental documents & archives
- Presidental Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, ‘Ethically Impossible,’ STD Research in Guatemala From 1946 to 1948, Sept 2011
- Henry K. Beecher, Ethics and Clinical Research, New England Journal of Medicine, June 16, 1966 (click on pdf icon, then read/scroll past intro piece to get to Beecher’s article)
- Japanese Imperial Army medical experiments Unit 731 | Materials on the Trial of Former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons, 1950
- Nuremburg Trials Medical Case Summary | Medical Case Transcript, 1946
- German Propaganda Archive; see esp Nazi Propaganda
- The Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942
- Signed Letter by Hitler Authorizing Euthanasia Killings (backdated to September 1, 1939)
- The Reich Citizenship Law, 1935
- Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, July 14, 1933
- Karl Binding & Alfred Hoche, Permitting the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living (1920) [excerpts]
- Eugenics Records Office 1910-39 Cold Spring Harbor | Eugenics Archive
- Eugenics Archive | html version
Human (mostly) experimentation
- Human Subject Research (Wikipedia)
- Unethical human experimentation in the United States (Wikipedia)
- Dan Markingson case:
- Signal to noise: trouble with psychiatry trials, Lancet Psychiatry, April 2016
- C Elliott, U of MN blasted for deadly clinical trial, Mother Jones, 4.3.15
- M Lamkin, How not to run a drug study, Stanford Law Sch, 12.14.12
- J Stone, A clinical trial and suicide leaves many questions, Part I , Part II, Sci Am, 12.11 and 12.13.12
- C Elliott, The deadly corruption of clinical trials, Mother Jones, Sept/Oct 2010
- Mad in America, U of MN and CAFE study links
- J Hu, How do we know when research participants truly give consent? Slate, 12.9.19
- B Resnick, Philip Zimbardo defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, Vox, 6.28.18
- RP Wolpe, A human head transplant would be reckless and ghastly…, Vox, 6.12.18
- B Resnick, The ‘marshmallow test’ said patience was a key to success…, Vox, 6.6.18
- S Kaplan, In clinical trials, for-profit review boards are taking over. . . , STAT, 7.6.16
- VR Newkirk II, A generation of bad blood, Atlantic, 6.17.15 (See also NBER working paper on which article based: M Alsan & M Wanamaker, Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men, NBER June 2016)
- N Jacewicz, Why are health studies so white, Atlantic, 6.16.16
- D Grimm, Research chimps to be listed as ‘endangered’, Sci American, 6.12.15
- American scientists in the 1920s. . . horrifying, racist study, RawStory, 2.23.15
- J Bourke, This won’t hurt a bit, New Statesman, 6.19.14
- F Diep, US to require gender equality for medical lab rats, Popular Science, 5.15.14
- B Morais, Why do mice fear men? New Yorker, 5.3.14
- RE Sorge, et al, Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents, Nature Methods, 4.28.14
- M Rodriguez & R Garcia, First do no harm: the US STD experiments in Guatemala, Am J of Public Health, Dec 2013
- The Lobotomy Files, Wall Street Journal, December 2013 (follow links in first story to other stories)
- Operation Delirium, R Khatchadourian, New Yorker, 12.17.12
- Lapses by American Leaders in Syphilis Tests, Douglas G. McNeil, Jr., NY Times, 9.14.11
- Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests, Donald G. McNeil, Jr., NY Times, 8.31.11
- Revisiting the issue of ethics of human experimentation, Respectful Insolence, March 2011
- Ugly past of U.S. human experiments uncovered, Mike Stobbe, AP, Feb 2011
- TR Frieden, Intentional infection of vulnerable populations in 1946-1948, JAMA, 11.10.10
- WM Robinson & BT Unhruh, The hepatitis experiements at Willowbrook State School, 2006?
Inter-/trans-/variously-abled bodies & persons
- E Cara, 10-year-old boy recovers impressively after 1/6 of his brain is removed, Gizmodo, 8.1.18
- A Ratcliffe, Staircases in space, i09, 7.31.18
- E Yong, How one number could change the lives of people with a rare disorder, Atlantic, 6.29.18
- B Borrell, Students with autism face vanishing support at college, Spectrum/Atlantic, 5.25.18
- M Bérubé, How a committed agnostic learned to embrace ‘spirituality’ to explain life and death to his exceptional intellectually disabled son, RawStory, 10.9.16
- L Miller, How intelligent do you have to be to raise a child? The Cut, 1.26.16
- E Garcia, I’m not broken, National Journal, 12.4.15
- L Holmberg, And Holland Has Tulips [Down syndrome]
- S Bivigou, The bad blood: my life with sickle cell anaemia, BuzzFeed, 3.10.15
- T Stafford, Can you live a normal life with half a brain? BBC, 12.18.14
- V Hughes, The sexual politics of autism, Nat Geo, 7.11.14
- C Greenfield, Should we ‘fix’ intersex children? Atlantic, 7.8.14
- T Shakespeare, Happiness and disability, BBC, 5.31.14
- M Bérubé, For hire: dedicated young man with Down syndrome, Al Jazeera, 5.25.14
- A Dreger, Born with unusual bodies, Pacific Standard, 12.30.13
- A Dreger. Pink Boys, Pacific Standard, 7.18.13
- T Vargas, Virginia woman with Down syndrome seeks power to control her own life, Washington Post, 7.20.13
- B Schwartzapfel, Born this way? American Prospect, 3.14.13
- J Heckert, The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly, NY Times, 11.15.12
- R Padawar, What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? NY Times Magazine, 8.8.12
- D Schwager, Changed, But Not Defined, by Hemophilia, NY Times, 1.30.12
- C Sayre, Making Sickle Cell Disease A Manageable Illness, NY Times, 6.29?.11
- M Bérubé, More on Peter Singer and Jaime Bérubé, Crooked Timber, 12.1.08
Pregnancy & parenthood (everything, everything)
- E Brooke, The bitter pill, Vox, 6.25.19
- O Khazan, Why so many women choose abortion over adoption, Atlantic, 5.20.19
- A Montañez, The cost of giving birth in the United States, Sci American, 1.22.19
- J Belluz,, Why doctors are so bad at predicting pregnancy due dates, Vox, 6.11.18
- O Khazan, The rise of older mothers, Atlantic, 5.17.18
- R Becks, An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep—and humans could be next, The Verge, 4.25.17
- B Skwarecki, The complicated science behind when babies are conceived, Vitals, 2.18.15
- D Grady, Uterus transplants may soon help some infertile women in the US become pregnant, NYTimes, 11.12.15
- S Saledin, War in the womb, Aeon, 8.4.14
- A Klein, It’s nobody’s fault, Slate, 5.24.14
- Womb transplants hailed as success in pioneering Swedish project, Guardian, 1.13.14
- S Nguyen, The Amazing Placenta, Atlantic, 12.13.13.
- J Grose, . . . Women shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for making healthy babies, Slate, 12.3.13
- M Kemenev, Is is safe to take medication while pregnant? Slate, 7.24.13
- R Bailey, Do fetuses feel pain? Reason.com, 7.12.13
- Garlands, Double Trouble & I’m Expecting Twins—and I Feel Like I Ruined My Family, Babble, 4.9 & 6.20.13
- J Twenge, How long can you wait to have a baby? Atlantic, 6.19.13
- E Urquart, The Meaning of White, The Walrus, April 2013
- K Benham, Parents of a micro preemie face heart-wrenching decisions (part 1, part 2, part 3), Tampa Bay Times, 12.9-12.16.12
- J Shulevitz, How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society, New Republic, 12.6.12
- C Neiring, Loving a Child on the Fringe, Slate, 11.28.12
- ES Reich, When Is It Right To Let Your Unborn Baby Die? Slate, 11.5.12
- E Rapp, Rick Santorum, Meet My Son, Slate, 2.27.12
- S Wildman, How Old is ‘Too Old’ for Fatherhood? Daily Beast, 11.7.11
- E Rapp, Notes From a Dragon Mom, [Tay-Sachs] NY Times, 10.16.11
- N Bakalar, Patterns: Risks for Preemies Resurface Years Later, NY Times, 10.3.11
- S Lerner, Knocked Up and Knocked Down, Slate, 9.26.11
- L Miller, Parents of a Certain Age, New York, 9.25.11
- S Rippon, Is Half an Abortion Worse than a Whole One? Practical Ethics, 8.22.11
- R Prawder, The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy, NY Times, 8.10.11
- S Putri, “I Know It’s a Girl, and I Need You to Get It Out of Me”, Slate, 8.2.11
- J Bering, Your Head on My Shoulder, Slate, 8.23.11
- A Tchou, Are Twins Taking Over? Slate, 8.23.11
- J Cohen, Fertility rites, Atlantic, Oct 2010
- L Tarkan, Lowering Odds of Multiple Birth, NY Times, 2.19.08
- A Faison, The Miracle of Molly, 5280, Aug 2005
- NS Macklon, et. al., Conception to ongoing pregnancy, the ‘black box’ of early pregnancy loss, Human Reproduction Update 8:4 (2002) 333-343.
State & private actions/laws/regs [See also “Bioethics Laws & Regs]
- D Matthews & B Pinkerton, “The time of vasectomy. . . .” Vox, 6.5.19
- A Josepsh, Congress revives ban on altering the DNA. . . , StatNews, 6.4.19
- S Begley, Congress weighs dropping ban on altering the DNA of human embryos used for pregnancy, StatNews, 6.4.19
- S Zhang, A long lost data trove uncovers California’s sterlization program, Atlantic, 1.3.17
- T Scheinman, The price of American eugenics, Pacific Standard, 11.4.15
- O Khazan, Remembering the Nazis’ disabled victims, Atlantic, 9.3.14
- K Sack, Transplant brokers in Israel lure desperate kidney patients to Costa Rica, NY Times, 8.17.14
- E Hannon, Belgium takes big step toward legalizing euthanasia for children, Slate, 12.12.13
- S Garcia, 8 shocking facts about sterilization in US history, Policy.Mic, 7.10.13
- CG Johnson, Female inmates in California prisons sterilized without approval, Center for Investigative Reporting, 7.7.13
- R Faden, 40 Years After Tuskegee, Atlantic, 1.16.13
- J Moreno, New Biology Unites Strange Political Bedfellows, Slate, 9.2.12
- K Safdar, Rich Dupe Bangladeshi Poor Into Giving Up Kidneys: Study, Huffington Post, 3.26.12
- Human Genes Can’t Be Patented, Supreme Court Decides, Huffington Post, 3.26.12
- M Kessman and J Hopper, Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program. . . Rock Center, 11.7.11
- Making Laws About Making Babies, NY Times, 9.14.11
- D Kraft, “Where Families are Prized, Help is Free”, NY Times, 7.17.11
- 1976: Government admits forced sterilization of Indian women, National Library of Medicine: Native Voices
Testing, testing. . .
- E Cara, A controversial DNA database used to solve crimes has gone commercial, Gizmodo, 12.10.19
- B Resnick, The limits of ancestry DNA tests—explained, Vox, 5.23.19
- V Darbha, S Zhang, You should be worried about your DNA privacy , Atlantic, 10.31.18
- S Zhang, When a DNA test reveals your daughter is not your biological child, Atlantic, 10.12.18
- S Zhang, Most people of European ancestry can be identified from a relative’s DNA, Atlantic, 10.11.18
- S Zhang, When a DNA test shatters your identity, Atlantic, 7.17.18
- J Belluz, The fertility testing racket just got debunked by science, Vox, 10.11.17
- S Hall, A new last chance, The Cut, 9.17.17
- Combining PGD & PGS to select embryos increases pregnancy rate but results in fewer transfers, 360Dx, 6.16.17
- S Zhang, The DNA test as horoscope, Atlantic, 1.25.17
- S Zhang, Will the alt-right promote a new kind of racist genetics? Atlantic, 12.29.16
- F Fiorentino, Healthy babies after intrauterine transfer of mosaic aneuploid blastocysts, NEJM, 11.19.17
- J Fenn, Down-syndrome screening: a one-parent test for a two-parent risk, Atlantic, 11.11.15
- AE Thompson, Non-invasive prenatal testing, JAMA, 7.14.15
- B Daley, Oversold prenatal tests spur some to choose abortions, Boston Globe, 12.14.14
- N Millman, Abortion and the Eugenics Bogeyman, American Conservative, 10.3.14; J Coppage, Eugenics is built into the health-obsessed West, AmCon, 10.8.14; N Millman, A healthy debate about health, AmCon, 10.8.14
- J Pearson, A genetic ‘GPS’ can track your origins 1000 years back, Motherboard, 5.2.14
- P Belluck, New DNA better at predicting some disorders in babies, NYTimes, 2.26.14
- Ancient genome won’t heal rifts with Native Americans, NewScientist, 2.12.14
- Reading a Newborn’s DNA, Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC , 2.11.14
- A Eisenberg, The Path to Reading a Newborn’s DNA, NYTimes, 2.8.14
- A Botelho, Genetic test screens embryo without disturbing it, New Scientist, 12.20.13
- G Neff, In the battle over personal health date, 23andMe and the FDA are both wrong, Slate, 12.13.13
- B Grant, Genetics firm gets baby-predicting patent, TheScientist, 10.4.13
- RT Scott, et al, Cleavage-stage biopsy significantly impairs human embryonic implantation potential while blastocyst biopsy does not, Fertility & Sterility, 9.1.13
- K Bindley, As prenatal testing for Down syndrome increases, so do concerns about counseling, Huffington Post, 8.20.13
- W Saletan, The boy who lived, Slate, 7.16.13
- HA Washington, Do You Really Want To Know Your Baby’s Genetics? Slate, 9.16.12
- S Dubner, Freakonomics: Fetal genetic testing raises big questions, Marketplace (radio transcript), 8.23.11
- S Mastenbroek, et al, In vitro fertilization with preimimplantation genetic screening, NEJM, 7.5.07
What’s it all about? (+miscellany)
- U LeGuin, The ones who walk away from Omelas
- K Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
- S Samuel, How your brain invents morality, Vox, 7.8.19
- F de Waal, The surprising complexity of animal memories, Atlantic, 6.2.19
- K Piper, The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity, Vox, 5.8.19
- B Healy, Are siblings more important than parents? Atlantic, 11.1.18
- S Illing, Why humans are cruel, Vox, 6.22.18
- P Voosen, Bringing up genius, Chron of Higher Ed, 11.8.15
- R Aviv, The death treatment, New Yorker, 6.22.15
- S Shapin, The virtue of scientific thinking, Boston Review, 1.20.15
- G Lofthouse, Enlightenment’s evil twin, Atlantic, 12.16.14
- M Shermer, Naughty or nice? When does it begin? Scientific American, 5.1.14
- DG Myers, Dying is a 12-step program, A Commonplace Blog, 4.10.14
- S Parrish, The art and science of doing nothing, Farnam Street, 4.8.14
- EE Smith, There’s More to Life Than Being Happy, Atlantic, 1.9.13
- G Marcus, Moral Machines, New Yorker, 11.27.12
- DB Hart, The Anti-Theology of the Body, New Atlantis, Summer 2005
- B Healy interview of C Elliott, The pursuit of happiness, Atlantic, Aug 2003
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