About meaning and purpose
With IVF firmly established legally and socially, the status of children has become a bit murky. Initially IVF was a remedy for medical infertility for...
Brain-damaged woman given permission to have IVF baby to get ‘more meaning and purpose in life’
Another controversial ruling from London’s Court of Protection The Court of Protection, in London, has to deal with head-spinning cases about people who are incapable...
Could the threat of lawsuits rein in gender dysphoria doctors?
Courts are ignoring recent evidence Critics of transgender treatment for children have been making heavy weather of persuading people that it could be medically dangerous....
Is bioethics fading away?
Sociologists will inherit their mantle, says Cambridge sociologist The etymological roots of the word “bioethics” suggest that its subject is the principles governing the morality...
Medical ethics: too important to leave to doctors
Let’s not return to the bad old days of paternalism In an article earlier this year in the Journal of Medical Ethics and in a...
Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism turns 40
The Principles of Biomedical Ethics is unrivaled in its influence. Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s 1979 tome Principles of Biomedical Ethics (PBE) is widely seen...
Scientists grow primate embryos for 20 days
Two research teams in China have grown primate embryos in vitro for 20 days. Two separate research teams in China have grown primate embryos in...