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Fingers crossed

More or less ethical

19 Nov 2015

The ethics of a person’s negotiating tactics may differ according to the nationality of the other party to the negotiation, according to a new study...

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Devil's Advocate

Fighting board rubber-stamping

14 Jul 2015

Public companies should appoint a ‘Contrarian Director’ – inspired by the ‘Devil’s Advocate’ – to challenge board decisions and suggest alternatives...

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Granddaughter helping her disabled grandmother walk with the aid of a walker.

Caring and sharing: challenges, costs and questions of dignity

03 Mar 2015

Integration of healthcare (free at point of delivery from the NHS) and social care (means-tested and provided by local authorities) is under...

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Mines

Immorality and invention: the “great stem cell debate”

28 Oct 2014

Human stem cell research holds promise for combating some of the most recalcitrant of diseases and for regenerating damaged bodies. It is also an...

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Looking for the good

03 Aug 2014

Anthropology looks at human differences in its study of the ‘other’ and at human commonalities in its more recent focus on the ‘suffering’. In...

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Mona Siddiqui

Let’s talk about Islam and women’s rights

19 Feb 2014

Professor Mona Siddiqui will be in Cambridge from 10 to 13 March to give a series of public talks that go to the heart of the debate that surrounds...

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human neural stem cells

Pluripotent stem cells: medical dream or ethical nightmare?

20 Feb 2012

Dr. Paul Fairchild, University of Oxford, to give a public seminar tomorrow, 21 February, discussing this topical issue.

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Men display their scars after kidney removal

What price a human kidney?

14 May 2011

A public talk at Cambridge University on Saturday will draw attention to the growing illegal trade in human organs and invite discussion of the...

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Detail from the cover of the Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics

Smart thinking

07 Apr 2011

As audiences watch the movie "Limitless", in which an author uses a smart drug to boost his brain, a new book shines a spotlight on the ethical...

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Twilight literature

The Twilight Zone?

03 Sep 2010

The effect on the teenage brain of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series is to be examined at Cambridge University.

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Games!

Praise for research initiative on British Muslims

09 Apr 2010

A Cambridge University-led project which investigated what it means to be a Muslim living in modern Britain has won high praise as a model for future...

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Pills.

UK research held back by over regulation

17 Oct 2008

Clinical research in the UK is being stifled by over regulation according to a group of leading academics.

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