The rise of robot ethics
Hi there, Although bioethics deals with living beings and robot ethics deals with machines, their destinies are intertwined. As you can read in this week’s...
US ob-gyns tell governments to butt out of doctor-patient relationship
Governments should butt out of the patient-doctor relationship, says an exasperated peak body for American doctors. Governments should butt out of the patient-doctor relationship, says...
Sydney court ditches binary sexual identity
A Sydney court of appeal has ruled that sex is not binary, ie, just male or female. A Sydney court of appeal has ruled that...
UN debates use of killer robots
The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to bioethics. The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to...
Maine refuses to follow Vermont on assisted suicide
The Maine House of Representatives has decisively rejected a bill to legalize physician assisted suicide , just days after Vermont legalized it. The Patient Directed...
New study identifies five ways to make consent informed
Health experts have long lamented the complexity of patient consent forms. A new University of Michigan study may provide a solution to this barrier to...
Singer questions reproductive freedom at women’s rights conference
Princeton ethicist Peter Singer provoked an uproar at last week's Women Deliver 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur when he denied the absoluteness of reproductive rights....
US court fast-tracks dying girl’s lung transplant
A US court has overruled government health policy and fast-tracked a lung transplant for a Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis. A US court has overruled...
Ancient mammoth blood gives new life to de-extinction project
Russian scientists claim to have discovered liquid woolly mammoth blood in a frozen carcase in Siberia, which would make cloning a real possibility. Ever fancied...
Climate change is a bioethics issue, too
Adventurous bioethicists seem to be continually pushing back the frontiers of their discipline. The latest conquest, or at least challenge, is climate change It used...