Practical Philosophy at the University of Oslo
Professor Anna Smajdor was previously an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and is professor of practical philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. Previously, she was a lecturer in ethics at the University of East Anglia. She has a longstanding interest in the ethical and regulatory aspects of science, medicine and technology. She has written and spoken widely in connection with this research, as well as on broader philosophical and ethical questions. She is coauthor (with Baroness Ruth Deech) of 'From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology' (buy this book from Amazon UK), and of 'The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law' (with Professor Jonathan Herring and Robert Wheeler buy this book from Amazon UK).
Why should people with the capacity to gestate be regarded as responsible for resolving population deficits? Professor Anna Smajdor argues that society’s interest in reproduction must be balanced with the rights of those whose bodies make gestation possible...
Professor Anna Smajdor, a philosopher who has worked on ethics and synthetic biology for over 20 years, explains why synthetic DNA could change our world, and why we need ethical guidelines to deal with a profoundly new kind of life…
Falling birth rates are forcing politicians to confront the consequences of education and immigration policies over recent decades...
The concept of fatherhood and reproduction are more spectral and multifactorial than we expect, reveals Professor Anna Smajdor…
Professor Anna Smajdor looks at the ethical arguments thrown up by a TikTok star's desire to use her parent's embryos to have her own children...
Dr Anna Smajdor explains the background to her recent paper which explored the ethics of using brain-dead women as gestational surrogates...
Dr Anna Smajdor responds to Dr John Appleby's argument for extending the 14-day limit, suggesting that not as much has changed in recent decades as he has assumed...
In January 2022, a heart transplant patient named David Bennett became world famous when it was reported that the 'donor' of the heart that had saved his life was – a pig...
Many of our legal and moral frameworks are based on natural distinctions...
A woman in India has given birth to twins. In itself, nothing particularly worth reporting there. Women give birth to babies all the time...
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