Chimeras: Animals as hosts for human organs?
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Accented Philosophy: Chimeras - Animals as hosts for human organs?
In this episode, Ezechiel and Andy discuss the complex ethics of growing human organs in animal hosts. Are we in danger of creating human-like animals? Could such animals claim human rights? And are we sufficiently respecting the dignity of such animal hosts?
Come along for an hour-long dose of your Daily Philosophy and understand the arguments surrounding the mixing of human and animal cells.
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In this podcast, with new episodes to come out every Tuesday, we will talk about philosophically relevant issues in the news, discuss philosophy with guests who do interesting things beyond the classic topics of university philosophy, and generally try to shed a bit of light on issues that are too much talked about and too little understood.
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