A look at The Hastings Centre Bioethics Forum
Continuing his look into the work of the Hastings Center Jonny Hankins takes a look at their bioethics forum and blog, and browses through various other related blogs from their blogroll. - Read in News
Is ethics a branch of Politics?
Returning to take a more in-depth look at the work of The Hastings Centre and interest in bio-ethics, Jonny Hankins provides a review of their recent online and hardback publication entitled From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns. - Read in Press 
A case study in scenario thinking
If we describe scenario thinking as a structured way of anticipating possibilities, it should be a part of innovating responsibly. In order to better understand the aims, as well as current methodologies and practices in use, one could take a look at a book entitled The future of ICT in financial services written by Daniel Erasmus and published by DTN press in Amsterdam. - Read in Press review 
New Developments in Solar Power Technology
In this his second posting on sustainability, Jonny Hankins looks at one of the great challenges facing the renewable energy industry, how to make solar energy production cheaper for the end user. - Read in Focus 
Our blogs
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Nature, New Yorker on Cognitive Enhancement
Back in December, Nature published a remarkable editorial, Towards Responsible Use of Cognitive-enhancing Drugs by the Healthy, that concludes "Safe and effective cognitive enhancers will benefit both the individual and society...But it would also be foolish to ignore problems that such use of drugs could create or exacerbate."
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Cristina Grasseni
Is biotechnological research in Italy a chimera? (Second part)
The second part of the interview conducted by Cristina Grasseni with Giovanna Lazzari e Cesare Galli at the Laboratory of Reproduction Technology in Cremona (Italy) in which many points of fundamental importance for a serious contemporary debate on responsibility and innovation emerge. - (post in Italian)
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Tommaso Correale Santacroce
Invisibile
In questo diablogo si parla della responsabilità con cui si dovrebbe affrontare la trasmissione della conoscenza. Nel caso delle nuove tecnologie e il loro utilizzo come armi si reclama un urgente sviluppo del dibattito etico in modo da permettere scelte e posizioni di coscienza.
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Giuseppe Pellegrini
Esercizi di democrazia partecipativa
Negli ultimi mesi si sono svolte in Italia numerose esperienze di democrazia partecipativa, iniziative che hanno cercato di riunire decisori, organizzazioni della società civile e cittadini per discutere su temi di forte rilevanza pubblica e costruire decisioni maggiormente condivise. Nonostante le tematiche siano le più varie: urbanistica, salute pubblica, ambiente e bilanci comunali, esistono alcuni obiettivi comuni che legano queste esperienze e le riuniscono sotto la voce "democrazia partecipativa".
I nostri blogBlog's Author: Roboethics
The mechanization of Empathy in Health Care - 2. Takanori Shibata
Second part of the report on "technology and empathy in the context of health care" held in January. During the conference, Dr. Shibata presented essential aspects of the idea of a "Robot Therapy". Dr. Shibata is Senior Researcher at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology AIST (Tsukuba, Japan). He is the inventor of PARO.
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