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This essay critically engages the work of John Harris and Jürgen Habermas on the issue of genetic engineering. It does so from the standpoint of women's embodied experience of pregnancy and parenting, challenging the choice-chance binary at work in these accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Harris has previously proposed that there is a moral duty to participate in scientific research. This concept has recently been challenged by Iain Brassington, who asserts that the principles cited by Harris in support of the duty to research fail to establish its existence. In this paper we address these criticisms and provide new arguments for the existence of a moral obligation to research participation. This obligation, we argue, arises from two separate but related principles. The principle of fairness obliges us to support the social institutions which sustain us, of which research is one; while the principle of beneficence, or the duty of rescue, imposes upon us a duty to prevent harm to others, including by supporting potentially beneficial, even life-saving research. We argue that both these lines of argument support the duty to research, and explore further aspects of this duty, such as to whom it is owed and how it might be discharged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1975 John Harris envisaged a survival lottery to redistribute organs from one to a greater number in order to reduce number of deaths as a consequence of organ failure. In this paper I reach a conclusion about when running a survival lottery is permissible by looking at the reason prospective participants have for allowing the procedure from a contractual perspective. I identify three versions of the survival lottery. In a National Lottery, everyone within a jurisdiction is a candidate for being a donor for everyone else, disregarding all differences between individuals' eventual possibility of needing an organ. In a Group Specific Lottery, it is a question of running a lottery among members of a specific group who share the same probability of getting organ failure. In a Local Lottery one randomises among individuals who are already in need of a new organ but who happen to be compatible and in need of different organs. While the first is vulnerable to considerations of fairness, it is difficult to perceive a feasible way to implement the second option that does not come with a host of unwelcome consequences. I argue, however, that it is permissible to run Local Lotteries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a letter in response to bioethics professor, John Harris on extended human life span. Opinion on the use of medical resources to extend the life of a person; Reaction of Harris on optimal balance; Argument on successive selves.

This article presents a list of books along with their author names. Some of the books enlisted includes: "Increasing Leadership Effectiveness," by Chris Argyris; "People Space: The Making and Breaking of Human Boundaries," by Norman Ashcraft and Albert E. Scheflen; "Understanding Each Other: Improving Communication Through Effective Dialogue," by Cathrina Bauby; "Elements of Modern Management," by Eugene J. Benge; "Group Development," edited by Cary L. Cooper; "Management Decision and Decision Analysis," Colin Eden and John Harris; "Educational Change: A Humanistic Approach," edited by Ray Eiben and Al Milliren; "Know Your Own Personality," by H.J. Eysenck and Glenn Wilson; "On the Way Up: The Executive's Guide to Company Politics," by Terry Farnsworth; "The New Games Book: Play Hard, Play Fair, Nobody Hurt," edited by Andrew Fluegelman; "Helping Employees Develop Job Skill: A Casebook of Training Approaches," by James E. Gardner; "Productivity Gains Through Worklife Improvement," by Edward M. Glaser; and "Managing Your Career: The Career Management System," by Douglas T. Hall.

The article profiles several authors who have contributed to the book. The authors cited include David DeGrazia, Katrien Devolder, Laura Grabel, Lori Gruen, Elizabeth Harman, John Harris and Don Marquis. It reveals that DeGrazia is a professor of philosophy at George Washington University. Meanwhile, Devolder has published articles on topics in bioethics and stem cell research.

The author reflects on the academic background and achievements of succeeding editor-in-chief of "ANZ Journal of Surgery," John P. Harris, who is the chairman of the Division of Surgery at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Deals with the reaction of several scientists to the recommendation of the Human Embryology and Fertilization Authority that human sex selection can only be carried out on medical grounds in Great Britain. Views of Tom Shakespeare, bio-ethicist at the University of Newcastle, on reproductive technology; Significance of sex selection, according to bioethics professor John Harris; Stand of Juliet Tizzard, director of the Progress Educational Trust, on the regulation of gender selection.

Announces that the "Journal of International Development" became the official journal of the Development Studies Association of Great Britain and Ireland effective from Volume 4, Issue Number 4. Appointment of managing editor, John Harris to the journal's Editorial Advisory Board; Articles to be published by the Journal.