Andrew Moeller

Andrew Moeller is a hosted researcher at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, an associate member of the History Faculty at Oxford, and is also affiliated with the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Andrew previously was a researcher in ethics and the humanities for the Boundaries of Humanity Project, based at Stanford. He is now the leader of a research project, under TORCH Medical Humanities, entitled "Biotechnology and the Humanities". This project draws and builds upon scholarship in the humanities, such as history, philosophy, theology, and ethics, to better understand biotechnologies aimed at human enhancement and their relationship with human society, and to foster interdisciplinary and open discussion of emerging biotechnologies. In addition to his work as a historian of eugenics and human enhancement, Andrew has also published on the role of the discipline of history within bioethics, as well as on the ethics and desirability of radical life extension.