Sweden’s nursing home debacle
Sweden has followed a different Covid-19 strategy. Instead of imposing quarantines and lockdowns, it had a "common sense" policy of voluntary social distancing, border closures,...
Questions raised about Sweden’s Covid-19 policy on nursing homes
Patients given palliative care instead of treatment Disturbing figures are coming from Sweden about the number of Covid-19 deaths amongst the elderly. According to an...
Should defunding the police be a bioethics priority?
Bioethicists can help reset the way budgets are made Protests in Portland / Tito Texidor III on Unsplash In the wake of riots after the...
More protests over eugenics, this time at Michigan State
A leading administrator has been sacked for his unpopular views Stephen Hsu / Michigan State University Away from the main battlegrounds of the war on...
Scandal about treatment of cadavers in France’s leading medical school
A national bioethical framework is needed for body donation Since last November, Europe's largest anatomy centre at the medical school of the University of Paris-Descartes...
Italy takes steps to reverse declining population
It includes a universal monthly allowance for children from the seventh month of pregnancy Last week the Italian parliament passed a bill aimed at boosting...
VSED has been normalised. But is it ethical?
Ethicists are taking an interest in Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are now legal in dozens of jurisdictions around the...