Genetic ties and the Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby and biological father Anthony Montague Browne In events which seem copied from the script of a B-grade potboiler, the Anglican Archbishop...
Racism and bioethics
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics considers the role that bioethics can play in addressing racism A new edition of the American...
No monkey business: pig to baboon organ transplants increasingly successful
A team of researchers in the US have performed a series of remarkably successful interspecies organ transplants. A team of researchers in the US have...
More changes to donor law considered in NSW
The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo donation The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo...
Absolute morality garners trust, says new study
People who hold to moral absolutes in ethical dilemmas appear to be more trusted than those who engage in a cost/benefit analysis. In an innovative...
Testing anti-paedophilia drugs
A randomised trial raises ethical complications How do you run an ethical randomised trial to stop paedophilia? This is the question that hovers over research...
Can we slim down the welfare state without eugenics?
A British academic has created a storm of controversy over his proposal to reduce the welfare-dependent population The restless rent-a-crowd of British university protesters has...