Lori Gruen

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 collaborate with biologists throughout my career.  Early on I worked with Marc Bekoff. 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.

Publications

Book:

•Stem Cell Research (co-edited with Laura Grabel and Peter Singer, Blackwell, 2007).

Articles:

•“Eggs on the Market” Ethics in Biology, Engineering, and Medicine 3(4) 2012: 227-236.

• “Biomedical and Environmental Ethics Alliance:  Common Causes and Grounds” co-authored with William Ruddick, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (4) 2009: 457-466.

•“Oocytes for Sale?” Metaphilosophy 38 (2-3) 2007: 285-308.Reprinted in Stem Cell Research.

•“Scientific and Ethical Roadblocks to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy” co-authored     with Laura Grabel, Stem Cells 2006: 2162-2169.

•Animal Welfare and Individual Characteristics:  A Conversation Against Speciesism,”  co-   authored with M. Bekoff, Ethics and Behavior 3 (2) 1993: 163-175.

•“Animals in Science:  Some Areas Revisited” co-authored with M. Bekoff, et. al. Animal Behaviour 44 1992: 473-484.