Timothy F. Murphy

Professor of Philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine

Timothy F. Murphy is a professor of philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the author most recently of Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children (The MIT Press).

Posts by Timothy F. Murphy
Bioethics Forum Essay
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What’s Behind Gender Panic in the Restroom?

North Carolina recently adopted a statute that requires people to use public restrooms consistent with the sex assigned to them at birth, and other jurisdictions are debating similar proposals. Legislators...
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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DNA Phenotyping and Baby’s First Portrait

Some researchers are at work generating images of people’s faces by relying on DNA samples alone, in a process known as DNA phenotyping.The process involves linking genetic traits and their typical...
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The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline

“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...
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LGBT Bioethics: Visibility, Disparities, and Dialogue

Editors: Tia Powell and Mary Beth Foglia Medicine and law have served in the past as society’s enforcement arm toward sexual minorities, in ways that robbed many people of their...
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Bioethics Forum Essay

Something Is Actually Happening: Are Bioethicists Doing the Right Stuff?

There’s a scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian that always reminds me of academia. It goes like this: The year is 32 A.D. and Brian, an unwitting doppelganger of...
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