AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site, is an informational clearinghouse for those involved in animal research, welfare, testing and more. Its primary goal is to reduce animal testing by providing researchers with alternatives to animal testing. It is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and maintains a list […]

Pollingreport.com posts results of surveys about animals, including a May 2008 Gallup Poll which found that 97 percent of Americans support some rights for animals but that 64 percent reject a ban on all animal testing in laboratories. Sentiment about buying and wearing animal fur has shifted slightly in recent years, according to Gallup, but a […]

Marilyn Coors is associate professor of bioethics and genetics in the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado at Denver. She is the author of the book The Matrix: Charting the Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification and of “Therapeutic Cloning: From Consequences to Contradiction” in the June 2002 edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.

Rebecca Rae Anderson is the vice chair of health promotion, social and behavioral health sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.  She is a board-certified genetic counselor, a member of the Social, Ethical, Legal Issues Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics and the author of Religious Traditions and Prenatal Genetic Counseling.

Glenn Graber is a philosophy professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His writings include “The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy” in Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century (2nd Edition).

Kenneth A. Richman is associate professor of philosophy and health care ethics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. He is author of Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence. He can be contacted through his website.

Adrienne Asch is director of the Center for Ethics and Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. Her writings include “Assisted Reproduction,” in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic (2008).

Dr. Eric M. Meslin directs the Center for Bioethics and serves as associate dean for bioethics and professor of medicine, as well as of medical and molecular genetics, at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is also professor of philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Indiana University-Purdue […]

Josephine Johnston is a research scholar and director of research operations at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. Her writings include “Judging Octomon” in the Hastings Review and “Reproductive Health: Control and Use of Gametes and Embryos” and “Reproductive Health: Storage and Disposal of Gametes and Embryos” for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (London, UK) […]