SINGAPORE DEBATES ORGAN DONATION
The image of organ donation in Singapore has been tarnished after a hospital used security guards to restrain weeping relatives while it whisked away a...
CALIFORNIA ORGAN DONATION INCIDENT UNDER INVESTIGATION
Organ donation can go pear-shaped in the US, too, as the recently. According to a report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, early last...
STEM CELL BANKS PROLIFERATE IN US
As American baby boomers move into their 60s, many are taking out "bioinsurance policies" in the form of frozen stem cell samples. It is being...
“FALSE IDOLS OF INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY” DENOUNCED
Writing in the , Peter Singer, doyen of utilitarian bioethicists, recently supported the so-called "Ashley treatment" for a severely retarded girl. In that widely discussed...
MEDICAL ETHICS AND MISSION CREEP
Like an exotic species in a foreign environment, ethics panels designed to monitor biomedical experiments have invaded and overrun the humanities in the US. The...
CONTROVERSY OVER BRAIN-DEAD PATIENT
Back in September, British researchers startled the neuroscience world when they reported in Science that a severely brain-damaged and apparently unresponsive patient had responded to...
SCIENCE IS NOT ETHICS, SAYS SCIENTIST
A letter in Nature has called upon scientists to distinguish between science and ethics. David Campbell, of the University of Alabama, was commenting on a...
DOCTORS ARE ACCOMPLICES IN INDIA’S SKEWED SEX RATIO
A series of harrowing articles in the has highlighted the role of doctors and medical technology companies in India's increasingly skewed sex ratio. The journalist,...