Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, was the 2006 winner of the International Spinoza Lens Award for contributions to public debate on ethics. She is the author of the forthcoming book Me Medicine vs. We Medicine.
User Account
Donna Dickenson
Commentaries by Donna Dickenson
-
DNA at 60
LONDON – On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one-page paper that many believed would revolutionize biological rese…
-
Brave New Cells?
LONDON – The United Kingdom’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched a public consultation to gauge attitudes towa…
-
Mengele in America
LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity – so…
-
Free-Market Babies?
LONDON – Does India need a new independence struggle? The fight this time would not be against British colonialism, but rather against the U…
-
Me Medicine
Francis Collins, Director of the United States’ National Institutes of Health, guides us through the upheaval in his new book The Language o…
-
Do-It-Yourself Genetic Tests
LONDON – If you were hoping to pick up a DNA kit along with your shampoo from the drugstore, you would be out of luck. The United States Foo…
-
Genetic Property Rights on Trial
LONDON – In early February 2010, a United States federal district court in New York began deciding a landmark case as to whether individuals…
-
My Body, My Capital?
LONDON -- In the 1960’s, feminists coined the slogan, “Our bodies, our selves.” But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone…
DNA at 60
Frank O'Callaghan: There is a central problem in the application of genetics and it is the problem of profit. When the decisions are made subject to these considerations there are huge losses to society. A hypothetical …
Brave New Cells?
Zsolt Hermann: This is the continuation of the "brave new world", the proud, and ignorant human being believing in being above, or outside of the vast natural system, capable of doing whatever it wants. It is not e…