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Commodification Of The Female Egg: Stem Cell Technology And The Future, Rachel Rose Ostrander
Commodification Of The Female Egg: Stem Cell Technology And The Future, Rachel Rose Ostrander
Rachel Rose Ostrander
As the science of stem cell research progresses it is difficult to tell what implications it will have on our society and for women. I will begin this discussion by examining how science has viewed women in the past, and use this as a basis to conjecture about how they will be viewed and treated in the future. Prevalent gender bias in scientific writing should be a cause for concern as the science of stem cell research and commodification of the female egg becomes more of a reality.
The process of egg donation has stirred much debate in the feminist …
Anticipating The Storm: Predicting And Preventing Global Technology Conflicts, Sabrina Safrin
Anticipating The Storm: Predicting And Preventing Global Technology Conflicts, Sabrina Safrin
Sabrina Safrin
This article helps lay the foundation for a new field of international law — International Law and Technology — and opens novel avenues of inquiry in law and technology and intellectual property more broadly. It analyzes as a starting point why some technologies generate global conflicts while others do not. Technologies that face international resistance can trigger a barrage of international legal responses, ranging from trade bans and WTO disputes to international regulatory regimes and barriers to patenting. Agricultural biotechnology triggered all of these legal flashpoints, while the cellphone, a technology that grew up alongside it, triggered none. Why?
Understanding …