Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Why all of us are evil
Science proves that we’re all capable of evil: your secret fantasy about killing someone you hate is surprisingly normal. But the way to better moral choices is to fight emotional instinct.
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
- Article
Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Michael Parker book Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice
Parker, MichaelDate: c.2008-2011Reference: SA/GEC/BPart of: Genethics Club: archives- Books
A perfect moral storm : the ethical tragedy of climate change / Stephen M. Gardiner.
Gardiner, Stephen Mark.Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
Shapin, Steven.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Living well now and in the future : why sustainability matters / Randall Curren and Ellen Metzger.
Curren, Randall R.Date: 2017- Books
Institutional responses to cases of fraud and misconduct in science : a media roundtable at the National Press Club, June 22, 1989 / sponsored by the AAAS Office of Communications and the AAAS/ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.
Date: 1990