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McCullough Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy Laura Purdy's article "Bioethics of New Assisted Reproduction" has been published in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, a Wiley enterprise with both a hardcopy and online version. The article provides an overview of moral issues inherent in a variety of new reproductive technologies, focusing centrally on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

Laura Purdy, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, published a paper titled "Could There be a Right Not to be Born an Ocutuplet" in Taking Responsibility for Children, edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007).

McCullough Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy Laura Purdy's article "Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection" will be published in the forthcoming second edition of "A Companion to Bioethics," edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, Blackwell. The "Companion" provides a comprehensive array of in-depth papers on central issues in bioethics.