?SPECIALIZATION Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field interested in questions about science and human values, primarily in the medical and clinical settings (e.g. Is the use of assisted reproductive technologies ever morally unacceptable? What is the moral status of human embryos? Should pregnant women be included in clinical research studies?). Bioethics intersects with many other disciplines, including moral philosophy and moral theology, law and public policy, cultural and historical studies, and medicine, biology, and ecology. These diverse disciplines bring different perspectives and research methodologies to bioethical issues in the private and public domains, including conceptual analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods, and text-based (critical) analyses. As bioethical issues emerge in many diverse contexts, bioethics as a discipline is relevant on several different levels, including the personal (e.g. when making personal decisions about how to live and die), the social (e.g. in the development of sound policy and law), and the global (e.g. discussion and analysis of the transnational human egg trade and transnational commercial contract pregnancy). PROVINCE: Nova Scotia UNIVERSITY: Dalhousie University – Halifax PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The student will participate in two independent but related bioethics research projects on the use of human reproductive tissues for science: 1. A survey of Canadian in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to determine the number of frozen eggs and embryos available for research use (e.g., for the purpose of improving fertility treatments, to develop human embryonic stem cell lines for regenerative medicine, etc.). 2. An examination of the benefits, harms and limitations of transnational trade in cryopreserved eggs and embryos for research. The first project will build on previous grant work by Baylis and colleagues conducted in 2003 (funded by Associated Medical Services and the Stem Cell