UPDATE:
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(The future of bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities)
Also, new president of the Hastings Center.
I love her vision! I so agree!!! Very challenging, sure. “Aspirational and inspirational” as she put it.
I e-mailed her and wrote the following:
Thank you. I am going to mull this over and let it inspire me.
I am a member of the public, have a background in earth and life sciences. I ran into the very first edition of Glenn Cohen’s EDX course and that’s what got me into bioethics.
I love the way – aspirational and inspirational, indeed – you are tackling – or should I say “approaching” – the field. It’s very challenging to take all views and angles into account – but we should, no matter how difficult this is – and I really love the way you fully embrace that. I also think that bioethics cannot keep being mainly restricted to the US and that it needs to go global, even though that is going to be so so challenging.
Having lived in England with its persistent class ideas, maybe I can contribute that housing and homelessness are part of the poverty topic, which is an inequity topic and the result of government policies and decisions. I agree with Philip Alston on that (NYU). 40% of Brits are currently in poverty.
Also, if you haven’t heard of them yet, then the IAPG – international association for the promotion of geoethics – might be useful to know about – connections to mining industry – and, with regard to the havoc that biased algorithms can cause, that’s not restricted to health, but also to tax-related decision-making, which also can have health impacts. In a pretty shocking Dutch childcare tax credit scandal, children were sometimes removed from parents, but I am sure you’ve heard of it.
Enjoy your weekend.
Also, when I wrote my book about “the new eugenics”, I looked for people to send it to and did my best to find scholars in Arabic and African countries too. I really was interested in how Islamic scholars and cultures see these issues.
Speaking of which: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-and-bioethics-what-we-all-need-to-know-registration-713788158597
See also https://sps.columbia.edu/academics/masters/bioethics/events
