Navigating unchartered territory

Human procreation in unchartered territory: new twists in ethical discussions.

Since their validation in mammals, there have been profound ethical discussions on the possible applications of somatic cell nuclear transfer, human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells to reproductive medicine. This has been the case whether these technologies were considered as direct (i.e. when procreation is the ultimate goal) or indirect applications. In most countries, ...

Common Territory

The IMP research tradition has always been open to the cross-fertilisation of ideas with other social science disciplines that study similar phenomena. Recent years have seen a growing interest among IMP researchers in phenomena such as regional strategic networks, spatial clusters and innovation and new business development in networks. IMP papers published on these topics are increasingly cit...

Navigating econtent

This presentation describes experiments in replacing parts of some lectures with multimedia enhanced teaching materials (eContent) for on-campus students in the School of Technology at Oxford Brookes University. In one example electronic lectures were developed to augment conventional delivery for a topic with which students always have difficulty. In another, a range of online teaching materia...

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Navigating uncertainty.

Thought leaders, creative types, and scientists may embrace uncertainty as a route to creativity, discovery, and fulfilment. But uncertainty is often ignored, feared, and hushed up in clinical medicine. Our editorialist Steven Hatch invites clinicians to stop trafficking in certitude, with diagnoses and research results that sound triumphantly final (doi:10.1136/bmj.j2180). If we sound certain ...