What’s life worth, anyway?
Now that Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke has burned his medical registration rather than give up promoting the right to die, he is tackling his...
Should high school football be banned?
Experts say that the risk of serious disability from concussion is too great. Bioethics is closing in on American football. An expert on concussion writing...
Somerville vs Savulescu on gene editing
Two prominent bioethicists debate the leading issue of the day The debate over editing the human genome is bound to continue for a long time,...
Most research using foetal tissue focuses on infectious diseases
Figures from NIHFoetal tissue research has featured prominently in headlines this year, after an anti-abortion activist group filmed Planned Parenthood officials talking about sales of...
Call for Belgium to revise euthanasia legislation
Doctors and ethicists protest "death as therapy". Although legalised euthanasia is widely accepted amongst Belgian doctors and politicians and a pet cause of the media,...
The socialite and her dialysis machine
Is 'life's not much fun any more' good enough reason to refuse treatment? Is “life is no fun any more” sufficient and rational reason to...