Possible Bioethics Topics

A-Z List of Topics

High School Bioethics 

Designer Babies

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/agar.html

Cloning Extinct Animals

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/03/18/cloning-woolly-mammoths-its-the-ecology-stupid/

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/05/cloned-species/mueller-text

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/deextinction/

Conservation of Endangered Species

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/09/24/the-ethics-of-conservation-endangered-species/

Giant Panda Breeding: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2ab3lfNUdpaUpXRVU/edit?usp=sharing

Performance Enhancement in Sports

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/sport/debate/drawingline_1.shtml

Fastest Man With No Legs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aV3M3Z1JvM2N3RUU/edit?usp=sharing

Steroids: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSlI5M1ZjM0Mwd3M/edit?usp=sharing

Personal Genome Testing

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443884104577645783975993656.html

Thyroid Cancer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2abklEbElpODF2TUU/edit?usp=sharing

Cloning

Cloning Fact Sheet-Human Genome Project

Human Experimentation

http://pcrm.org/research/healthcare-professionals/research-compendium/human-experimentation-an-introduction-to-the

Ellen Roche Case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSWowelY2WTRHeEE/edit?usp=sharing

Willowbrook Hepatitis: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aNlRNMVY5TVBYVkU/edit?usp=sharing

Animal Testing

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/health/nih-chimps/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

http://highschoolbioethics.med.nyu.edu/briefs/ethics-animals

Disease Model Mice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aRVdWZGJYWUZyWE0/edit?usp=sharing

Ear Mice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSVplRWp3ZF9USzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Mad-Cow Disease Cows:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aRm1KaUo4bWZWZE0/edit?usp=sharing

Animal Modification

Dyed Feathers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aZ1ItU1lvZEtLblU/edit?usp=sharing

Ear Mice:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSVplRWp3ZF9USzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Glowing Rabbits: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aTUkwNENJUzI2WDg/edit?usp=sharing

Immunoglobulin Cows:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aTGhhTjFWWVRUUDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Mad Cow Disease Cows:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aRm1KaUo4bWZWZE0/edit?usp=sharing

Malaria Mosquitoes:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aOWlMb0V1MzY3clE/edit?usp=sharing

Purebred Dogs:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aTXJrOHBTZHBVV3c/edit?usp=sharing

Sheered Sheep:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aVUhfMFlpQnlCN2M/edit?usp=sharing

Spider Silk Goats:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2adEp6UFpRcWVDSUE/edit?usp=sharing

Super Sized Salmon:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aZUxqbWVrN3dRZzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Required Vaccinations

http://vaccines.procon.org/#background

Exemptions:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aaTVhLUpwUnpqMVU/edit?usp=sharing

Get Kids Vaccinated Or Else:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2adjBTaHpFQTIwUDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Measles in Dublin:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aM1lhUVUzbVA3VW8/edit?usp=sharing

Smallpox in Boston:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSTJNdjRFbGgxOXM/edit?usp=sharing

Gene Patents

http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/11/who-owns-you-20-of-the-genes-in-your-body-are-patented-video/

Sports and Brain Injury

http://highschoolbioethics.med.nyu.edu/briefs/head-to-head

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/health/nfl-concussion-settlement/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/31/269422083/sidelined-by-brain-injury-ex-nfl-player-copes-with-desperation

Organ Shortage

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/presumed_consent_not_answer_to_solving_organ_shortage_in_us_researchers_say

Ear Mice:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSVplRWp3ZF9USzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Immunoglobulin Cows:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aTGhhTjFWWVRUUDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Xenotransplantation

http://highschoolbioethics.med.nyu.edu/briefs/xenotransplantation

Ear Mice:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aSVplRWp3ZF9USzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Immunoglobulin Cows:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aTGhhTjFWWVRUUDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Spider Silk Goats: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2adEp6UFpRcWVDSUE/edit?usp=sharing

Genetically Modified Food

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002432.htm

Super Sized Salmon:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-czEsGD5_2aZUxqbWVrN3dRZzQ/edit?usp=sharing