A test for Alzheimer’s will be very disruptive
If an easy diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s Disease is developed, how would this affect people’s lives? In 2009 Judge Karen Williams, chief judge on the...
Scottish rights groups back right to die for children
Taking their cue from Belgium, Scottish groups have tentatively backed voluntary euthanasia for children with terminal illnesses. Taking their cue from Belgium, Scottish lobby groups...
Is moral bioehancement even possible?
A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and framed on gratuitous assumptions. The authors – Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Cornell) and...
Israel debates assisted suicide
A ministerial committee has approved a bill which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to Israeli citizens with less than six months to live....
Israel’s medical association condemns new force-feeding bill
The Israel Medical Association has announced its opposition to new bill that would legalize the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners. The bill, currently before the Knesset,...
Bioethicists debate as curtains close on Casey Kasem
The passing of disc jokey Casey Kasem has generated a remarkable volume of bioethical commentary. Artificial nutrition was withdrawn from an unconscious Kasem in light...
One Child Policy an attack on the common good – Chinese bioethicist
In a provocative new article in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Chinese bioethicist Jing-Bao Nie attacks the one child-policy for having “a hugely negative...