Week 12: Cloning
Nick Weinrich Seeman ANT 385 20 April 2023 Human Cloning: Miracle or Misfortune? From my opinionated statements in class, it is evident that I often default to the “liberal” stances on many of the issues we have touched upon. However, even though I am not religious, I hold the belief common among the Abrahamic faiths […]
Week 12: Cloning & Politics
Class 11 ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIOETHICS
Week 11 post: Anthropology and Bioethics
Sunny Wang Professor Don Seeman Religion 358 9 April 2023 Week 11 Blog Post In “Moral Experience and Ethical Reflection: Can Ethnography reconcile them? A quandary for the new Bioethics,” Kleinman first discusses the problems of three -isms with bioethics research: ethnocentrism, medicocentrism, and psychocentrism. He then proposes the new bioethics that is “more inclusive […]
Week 10: Surrogacy Continued
Natalia Ruich Professor Don Seeman Religion and Bioethics 30 March 2023 Feminism and Surrogacy Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Both of this week’s authors, Barbara Katz Rothman, author of “Reproductive Technologies and Surrogacy: A Feminist Perspective,” and Elly Teman, author of […]
Week 10: Surrogacy Continued
Week 10: Surrogacy Continued
Week 9: Surrogacy
Tiara Lewis-Falloon Seeman, REL-358 March 20th, 2023 Week Nine: Surrogacy In class, we have discussed how many people, regardless of religion or not, are skeptical about reproductive technologies. Technology is definitely used during the surrogate process–but so is another human’s whole body for nine months–which is why I feel like it carries more pressure in […]