Kirstin R W Matthews

Biographic Data

ID4274349
NAMEKirstin R W Matthews
GIVEN NAMESKirstin R W
FAMILY NAMEMatthews
SIGNATUREMATTHEWS K R W
AFFILIATIONSRice University
ORCID0000-0002-3702-0414
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS25
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies

    Open AccessKirstin R W Matthews, Ana S Iltis et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    It now seems technically feasible to culture human embryos beyond the “fourteen‐day limit,” which has the potential to increase scientific understanding of human development and perhaps improve infertility treatments. The fourteen‐day limit was adopted as a compromise but subsequently has been considered an ethical line. Does it remain relevant in light of technological advances permitting embryo maturation beyond it? Should it be changed and, if…

  • Public and Stakeholder Engagement in Developing Human Heritable Genome Editing Policies

    Open AccessAna S Iltis, Sarah Hoover et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Political Science2021References: 1

    As scientific research pushes the boundaries of knowledge, new discoveries and technologies often raise ethical and social questions. Public responses vary from surprise, to unrealistic optimism about imminent new treatments, confusion, and absolute opposition. Regardless of the intent, the use of a precise gene editing tool on human embryos, such as CRISPR-Cas9, is an example of such a controversial emerging technology. Substantive disagreement …

  • Secularity and Science

    E H Ecklund, David R Johnson et al.BOOKSecularity and Science2019

    In order to take an in-depth look at the relationship between science and religion around the world, the authors of this book completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists’ attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than twenty thousand scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over six hundred of them. From this wealth of data, the authors extract the real story of the relationship between science and…

  • Responding to Richard

    Open AccessDavid R Johnson, E H Ecklund et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2018

    Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews conducted with biologists and physicists at universities in the United Kingdom, this study examines scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in socially contentious public debates. We examine Richard Dawkins’ involvement in public debates related to the relationship between science and religion as a case to analyze scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in the public sp…

  • Religion among Scientists in International Context

    Open AccessE H Ecklund, David R Johnson et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2016Cited by: 25References: 12

    Scientists have long been associated with religion's decline around the world. But little data permit analysis of the religiosity of scientists or their perceptions of the science-faith interface. Here we present the first ever survey data from biologists and physicists in eight regions around the world-France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, countries and regions selected because they exhibit d…