Lessons from Peru
I just stumbled across a documentary which was recently released in Peru, Cicatrices del engaño (Scars of Deception), about the 300,000 women and 22,000 men...
UK may offer free weight-loss surgery to fight epidemic
A quarter of Britons are obese, fuelling a rise in cases of type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease, fatty liver disease and cancer....
Remembering the dark story of Peru’s population control campaign
Showcasing an interactive documentary about women and men who were sterilised in Peru in the mid-1990s by population controllers. The Quipu Project is an interactive...
Should severely disabled infants be euthanased?
Two of the leading voices in bioethics go head-to-head. Two of the leading voices in bioethics have a fascinating head-to-head confrontation on the euthanasia of...
Thai parliament votes to ban the surrogacy trade
Thailand’s interim parliament has voted in support of a bill to ban commercial surrogacy in the country. Thailand’s interim parliament has voted in support of...
An eloquent defense of euthanasia by organ removal
In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, two Oxford bioethicists provide a lucid defense of euthanasia by organ removal. The notion of death by...