Plus ça change
The Atlantic recently published a feature about the early days of artificial reproductive technology. The headline was: “The First Artificial Insemination Was an Ethical Nightmare:...
JAMA debates assisted suicide
Legalisation in California has put it on the agenda everywhere. The latest issue of JAMA showcases the views of leading American doctors and lawyers on...
Half million at risk of female genital mutilation in US, says report
... but no figures on how many have actually experienced it. Jaha Dukureh, American campaigner against FGM US government statistics show that more than...
First euthanasia case in Quebec
But not without legal complications At least one person and perhaps three have been euthanased in Quebec since the Canadian province’s legislation went into effect...
The dark past of progressive eugenics
Some of the best minds in the US and Britain were in favour of purging the “race” of “defectives” in the early 20th century. The...
Complications of “effective referral”
Sixty years after, Nazi cogs in the machine are still being put on trial. Arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 Whether doctors...