Most of the multimedia content by and about the institute is in Finnish but there are a few stories and articles in English as well. Here is our current selection.
For a selection of digital bioethics lessons see the Abstract page of MyBioethics.
“Narrative Hermeneutics and Bioethics: Understanding the Psychedelic Value Changes.” The American Journal of Bioethics. Published January 13, 2025.
”Challenging the Centrality of Anti-Racism in Bioethics.” The American Journal of Bioethics. Published September 16, 2024.
“Should selling your own kidney be allowed? The MyBioethics app explores ethical dilemmas.” Project Stories, Kone Foundation. Published September 12, 2024.
“MyBioethics: How Ed-Tech Enables Discovery-Driven Empirical Bioethics Research.” Digital Society. Published July 10, 2024.
“Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research.” Med Health Care and Philos. Published June 6, 2024.
”Socialisation approach to AI value acquisition: enabling flexible ethical navigation with built-in receptiveness to social influence”. AI Ethics. Published November 21, 2023.
“Human/AI relationships: challenges, downsides, and impacts on human/human relationships”. AI Ethics. Published October 4, 2023. In collaboration with Innovative Bioethics Forum.
“Wisdom of the Established Pattern.” Voices in Bioethics. Published on June 27, 2023.
“Attention Span and Tech Autonomy as Moral Goods and Societal Necessities”. Digital Society. Published June 15, 2023. In collaboration with Innovative Bioethics Forum.
“Values in AI: bioethics and the intentions of machines and people.” AI Ethics. Published on December 14, 2022. In collaboration with Innovative Bioethics Forum.
“What is Organic Bioethics?” HMS Bioethics Journal. Published on April 1, 2021.
Heikki Saxén’s Ph.D. dissertation “A Cultural Giant: An interpretation of bioethics in light of its intellectual and cultural history,” accessible online here. Published on October 6, 2017.
Heikki Saxén received a UNESCO Award for promoting bioethics in Finland. Read more here. Published on October 19, 2016.
“Bioethics drew the US Ambassador to visit Tampere,” a story about the bioethics research done by Heikki and Salla Saxén on the website of the University of Tampere. Published on May 27, 2016.
“Treatments for the few,” an interview with Heikki Saxén on the website of the University of Tampere. Published on February 4, 2016.