Bioengagement Spring-Winter 2020

BioFiction

Ernest Cline, ReadyPlayer Two

(Ballantine Books, 2020).

‍Emerging Technology, Neuroethics, Personhood, Technology & Society, Virtual Reality.

Paul Kingsnorth, Alexandria: A Novel

(Graywolf Press, 2020).

‍Meaning of the Human Person, Consciousness Uploading, Posthumanism, Transhumanism.

Martha Wells, All Systems Red

(Tor.com, 2018).

‍Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Autonomous Weapons.

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Bioethics at the Box Office

I Care A Lot

(2020, Netflix).

‍Elder Care, Elder Abuse, Geriatrics, Court-Appointed Guardians.

Keepers of the House

(2020, Duke Franklin Humanities Institute, Documentary).

‍Hospital Environment, Human Dignity, Non-Medical Hospital Personnel, Empathy, Teamwork.

Nomadland

(2020, Searchlight).

‍Aging in America, Geriatrics.

Project Power

(2020, Netflix).

‍Human Enhancement, Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Transhumanism.

Sound of Metal

(2019, Amazon).

‍Deafness as Disability or Difference?  

Superintelligence

(2020, HBO Max).

‍Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Surveillance, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things.

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Primetime Bioethics

Lenox Hill

(2020, Netflix, Docuseries).

‍Clinical Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Residency, Neurosurgery, Labor and Delivery, Urban Medicine.

Love, Death,& Robots

(2019–present, Netflix).

‍Biotechnology, Cyborgs, Emerging Technology, Human Enhancement, Radical Life Extension, Reproductive Ethics, Robotics, Technology & Society.

Transplant

(2020, NBC).

‍Canadian Medicine, Emergency Medicine, End of Life Issues, Immigration and Medicine.

Unnatural Selection

(2019, Netflix, Docuseries).

‍Human Enhancement, Genetics, Biohacking, CRISPR, Xenotransplantation, Gene Therapy, Human Experimentation.

Upload

(2020, Amazon).

‍Consciousness Uploading, Radical Life Extension, Utopian Thinking.