Lori Gruen

Sometimes I wish I had a Ph.D. in biology.  Many of my practical ethical interests involve thinking about biological questions—questions about life and the complex relationships among living things.  Fortunately, I have been able to work with biologists.  Early on I worked with Marc Bekoff, we wrote a few papers on animals and science, one of which was published in the leading journal of behavioral biology:  “Animals in Science:  Some Areas Revisited” Animal Behaviour 44 (3) 1992.

More recently I have been collaborating with a developmental biologist, Laura Grabel, on ethical issues raised by reproductive technologies and human embryonic stem cell research.  We published one of the first discussions of ethical issues in a leading stem cell journal  “Scientific and Ethical Roadblocks to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy” Stem Cells 24, 2006, edited a book together Stem Cell Research:  The Ethical Issues (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2007).