Should lockdown protesters forfeit their right to medical care?
Some bioethicists have little sympathy for them Protests in US state capitals against coronavirus lockdowns have become a familiar feature of nightly news bulletins. In...
Unclean! Unclean!
Maskless shopper sparks panic How much of a help are masks in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Absolutely essential, it seems, to New Yorkers. One woman...
Is bioethics an honest profession? The jury’s still out
Two practitioners hit back at scepticism Back in 1976, a young bioethicist named Peter Singer wrote, “bioethics is still in its infancy, and its rich...
Covid-19 pandemic strands babies in Georgia, too
Ukraine is not alone A birth at Chachava Clinic in Tbilisi About a hundred babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine are separated from the parents...
Armenia takes drastic measures to reverse population decline
Testing 15-year-olds? Not getting any younger in Armenia The tiny but fiercely distinctive and geo-politically strategic nation of Armenia is facing a demographic crisis. Its...
Monkeying around with coronavirus
The number and range of articles about Covid-19 in the bioethics arena alone is staggering. However, the topic of privacy and confidentiality has not been...