Canada honours prominent eugenicist
One of Canada's most honoured women was a prominent eugenicist. In bioethics, as in every field, reputations are kept aloft more by the volume of...
Mice eggs made in Petri dish for first time
Japanese researchers have turned mouse stem cells into germ cells that give rise to eggs in living mice. These eggs have produced viable offspring through...
Three reasons why your surrogacy deal could go south
Three surrogacy nightmares plucked from recent headlines According to the glossy Hollywood gossip mags, a baby via a surrogate mother has brought celebrity news host...
Significant stress after witnessing assisted suicide
Relatives and friends of a person who commits assisted suicide have a high rate of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, according to a Swiss study...
Bioethics on the campaign trail
The Hastings Center, a leading bioethics think tank in New York, has created a table comparing the positions of Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican...
Belgium pioneers organ donation after voluntary euthanasia
The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die after voluntary euthanasia is becoming customary in Belgium.The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die...
“The new sexual predators”
They say that history is written by the winners. A new twist on this maxim is that bioethics is written by the powerful. But what...