Bioethics

“Genetics and Morality,” BBC Reith Lecture 2 (2009)

Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge. New genetic technologies hold great promise for treating and curing disease, but how far we should go in using them to manipulate muscles, moods and gender?

HUBweek Fenway Forum at Faneuil Hall, Boston, (2015)

Should we try to live forever? Make machines that can outthink us? Create perfect kids?  Michael Sandel leads an all-star panel in an iconic Boston setting. Arianna Huffington, Yo-Yo Ma, Alexis Wilkinson, Andrew McAfee and Sherry Turkle join Sandel in a lively discussion—with audience participation—about some hard ethical questions.