by Heather Zeiger | May 28, 2016 | Human Dignity, Salvo, Society
Salvo Magazine has a section called “Casualty Report” where they will report on current trends and statistics. I wrote this quarter’s report on sex trafficking. While the report is factual in tone, it was a difficult topic to research. I had to work...
by Heather Zeiger | Mar 10, 2016 | Announcements
I have a new article in Christian Research Journal (by subscription only) that discusses the ethics of altruistic and commercial surrogacy. I look at Jennifer Lahl’s documentary, Breeders: A sub-class of women, where she interviews former surrogates. For this...
by Heather Zeiger | Jan 28, 2016 | Ethics, Science, Society
The recent issue of Scientific American has an article by Carl Erik Fisher, a psychiatrist and bioethics professor at Columbia University, in which he explores whether behavioral addictions are mental illnesses or just bad habits. His article, “Food, sex, gambling,...
by Heather Zeiger | Jun 4, 2015 | Salvo, Science, Technology
In my latest blog post at Salvo’s Signs of the Times I comment on the recently published research out of Nature that says scientists are very close to making a yeast strain that will convert glucose into morphine.
by Heather Zeiger | May 18, 2015 | Book Review, Ethics, Human Dignity, Science, Society
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Broadway Books, 2010 It was a time when donated blood was labeled “colored.” Hospitals were segregated. Consent laws were in flux, and cellular biology was a growing field. It was during this time that...
