Conservative Bioethics Thoroughly Exposed
In it, in a very unconventional way, she aggregates and presents information about how conservative bioethics is developing as a set of institutions. The download is useful and whatever your view on the politics of bioethics this is must-reading if you want to understand the debate. I think it is great. I haven't yet seen anything like this kind of thorough indictment of what amounts to exploitation of the academic standing and role of bioethics by a political movement (and even by a Presidential administration), although I have argued in an editorial , in Nature and elsewhere that the Kass leadership of the Presidential bioethics group is incredibly problematic, and of course this blog published his "manifesto" for bioethics, which I would link to were I not using bad internet in an Allentown Pennsylvania hotel and late to go give a talk.
And like Karen Kathryn (and with her) we have been all over the problems with the PCB since it first began to play presidential politics, and to pretend to offer scientific solutions to the embryo research problem (most recently in the form of David Magnus' excellent argument "Bad Science + Bad Ethics = Nature Publication?"
Women's Bioethics Project has made exposing the hijacking of bioethics by conservatives a top priority. Hinsch is the principle author and a good writer and speaker who has a neat take on what bioethics from a women's perspective might mean. For example she gave this excellent speech at the UN Plaza.
[thanks Jon Moreno]
