I am spending some time in Japan this summer. There is an android named Mindar giving sermons about the Heart Sutra at the Kōdai-ji temple in Kyoto.

I Who Have Never Known Men is a nice proof of concept novel here.

Grave injustice: the continuing use of unclaimed bodies in American medicine Despite a growing sensitivity to the ethics of whole body donation in the field of clinical anatomy, the remains of unclaimed individuals continue to be used in healthcare teaching and research throug...

My paper arguing that the United States should stop using unclaimed bodies in medical teaching and research is now out in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
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Just arrived in balmy, heliolatrous Miami, where I am excited to spend the next couple of weeks immersing in bioethics and clinical anatomy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. I’ll be giving a Dialogues in Research Ethics talk on March 19th. Floridian philosophers, let’s connect!

Opinion | Using unclaimed bodies for medical research is a grave injustice Unclaimed remains of poor people in Texas were dissected for medical research without consent.

I wrote an op-ed on the use of unclaimed bodies in medical teaching (and why it needs to stop). www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Understanding Organ Stewardship I present a bipartite model of organ stewardship that places it at the intersection of resource stewardship and gift stewardship. Though both forms of stewardship are grounded in relationships of tru...

My article “Understanding Organ Stewardship” is now out in the Hastings Center Report. doi.org/10.1002/hast...