UK doctor struck off for failing to protect Iraqi detainees
A British Army doctor was deregistered in the UK in December for failing to treat an Iraqi man who had been tortured by British troops...
Does Western bioethics ignore the family?
The emergence of a family centred bioethicsA conference in Singapore recently cast bioethics in a different light. Jim Sabin, a professor at Harvard Medical School,...
Assisted suicide debate moves south, to Connecticut
After being rebuffed in Massachusetts, the assisted suicide lobby has turned its eyes to neighbouring Connecticut, where euthanasia legislation is due to be debated later...
The true “immorality” of test-tube babies
However, a journalist for the American financial magazine Forbes has once again raised the issue of IVF ethics. Its "original sin", says Peter Ubel, was...