From Reconstruction, Katharyn Privett (Albany State): Sacred Cyborgs and 21st Century Goddesses; and Paula Cerni on Unproductive Bodies: A Materialist Critique of the "Corporeal Turn". A review of A Life Decoded by J Craig Venter. Space-faring fungus hats and synthetic biology: If the science moves like Moore's law, get ready for bio-freakiness. A review of Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, and Robots by Eduardo Kac. From Social Research, Jeff McMahan (Rutgers): Justice and liability in organ allocation. Kidney Matchmaking: A mathematical optimization strategy for pairing patients who need kidneys with willing donors could increase the number and quality of transplants. Because they lack an essential component, blood transfusions may be killing some of the people they are intended to save. From The New Yorker, what scanning techniques are revealing about vegetative patients. What do we mean by "consent" in a medical context? Onora O'Neill challenges some widely-held assumptions.
