Coronavirus special
Most of today’s newsletter is devoted to the coronavirus outbreak. Send us some feedback. Two countries at the epicentre of the outbreak are particularly interesting...
Assisted suicide makes good economic sense, argue Scottish academics
A new study in the journal Clinical Ethics claims that permitting assisted dying would substantially benefit both those seeking assisted suicide and the public. Two...
Coronavirus: Italian doctors face allocation crisis
Some suggest a utilitarian solution Nowhere have the ethical conundrums faced by doctors during the coronavirus pandemic been more clearly sketched than in Italy. The...
Coronavirus: message from the front lines
An Italian doctor describes the situation in Bergamo Daniele Macchini, a doctor at the Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, damned...
Coronavirus: vaccine shortcuts
How about animal trials? Shortcuts are being taken in the rush to develop a vaccine for coronavirus, according to an article in STAT. Scientists are...
Coronavirus: what happened to America’s bioethics commission?
Where is Trump getting his advice? Let’s look at the worse-case scenario for the coronavirus epidemic in the United States. According to a report in...
Coronavirus: people on cruise ships should be treated humanely
On board they get sicker; on shore they are stigmatizedGrand Princess/ AP Photo / Jeff Chiu More than 50 cruise lines are suspending operations to...
We are not making this up
A dispatch from the front lines of the Reproductive Revolution in Florida Barrie Drewitt-Barlow is expecting triplets with new partner Scott Hutchinson A disproportionate number...