Stereotypes
There is an apocryphal story of an advertisement placed in the matrimonial pages of a North India newspaper: "Family seeks homely, attractive, convent-educated girl for...
Animal welfare abuses exposed at Nebraska research farm
The Obama Administration has reacted swiftly to a scathing report on animal welfare at a Federal government laboratory in Nebraska Cows grazing at the U.S....
“Virginity tests” unethical, says South African physician
While virginity tests for unmarried women have been universally regarded as unethical in Western countries, the practice is spreading in immigrant communities. While virginity tests...
UK scientists call for debate on designer babies
Novel techniques of editing the genome have inspired some British scientists to call for a public debate on designer babies. Novel techniques of editing the...
The ethics of skin colour stereotypes
In many countries, especially South Asia, a preference for lighter skin predates European colonialism. At the intersection of marketing and bioethics is the issue of...
Physician assisted death versus palliative care
Why wait for the perfect public health system? Arguments against physician assisted suicide and euthanasia often turn on a claim about the need prioritize the...
Creation: a product for the masses?
One San Francisco geek is set on 'democratising creation'. What if we could democratise creation? This may sound like a pretentious thought from a sci-fi...
US Supreme Court to debate the use of new three-drug execution method
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case on the constitutionality of a new execution method being used in Oklahoma...
China’s gender imbalance “most serious and prolonged in the world”
China's government has made its strongest statement yet about gender imbalance. China has by far the greatest gender imbalance of any nation in the world,...