Athene Donald
Physicist and ‘one of Britain’s 100 most powerful women’ (Telegraph) Athene Donald is best-known for her pioneering research into Alzheimer’s disease, hip replacements and prosthetic limbs.

Physicist and ‘one of Britain’s 100 most powerful women’ (Telegraph) Athene Donald is best-known for her pioneering research into Alzheimer’s disease, hip replacements and prosthetic limbs.
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A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?

Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?

Saving Science
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Life On The Edge
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Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?

Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution

Planet of the Clones
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The Uniqueness of Humanity
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Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry

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Cyborg Future
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Inside the Mind’s Eye

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Your Life in the Balance
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Documenting Death
Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti

Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?

Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science

Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism

Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men

How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture

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A future without morality

Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?

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Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?

Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?

The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?

Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?

Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age

Memes all the way down
Is Dawkins' concept useful?

Science to the Rescue
How do we decide on the truth?

The return of eugenics?
The danger of eugenics

Trust, science and neutrality
Is science the gold standard of objective truth?

What's wrong with us?
Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?

The medicine myth
The failure of medicalising philosophy

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