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).
Earlier this year, at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in Lyons, France, it was reported that Melanie Boivin, a Canadian woman, had decided to have her eggs surgically extracted and preserved for the later use of her daughter, who at this time was seven years...
On 10 April 2007, Natallie Evans lost the final stage of a four year legal battle for the right to implant embryos created with her eggs and the sperm of her former partner. Ms Evans had been diagnosed with cancer, and treatment necessitated the removal of her ovaries, leaving her...
Recent media reports describe the case of Alexandra Saunders, a 25 year old woman who has been advertising her eggs for sale on the internet in the hopes of paying off her credit card debts . The tone of these reports has largely been incredulous if not overtly condemnatory. But why...
The success achieved by Professor Karim Nayernia et al in obtaining offspring from 'artificial sperm' has been widely reported over the past week. The research may shed light on the complex developmental processes involved in gamete formation. It has also been suggested that in the future, therapeutic cloning in conjunction...
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