Blazing Australia
If you are not inclined to be disputatious, don’t visit Australia at the moment. Across the country is a heated debate about same-sex marriage. According...
Does Asia have a distinctive bioethics?
Families are much more importantThe Western concept of autonomy, which dominates in the Anglo-American world at the moment, needs to be adapted in Asia to...
After 15 years, will the Dutch finally prosecute a euthanasia doctor?
An elderly woman with dementia was given a lethal injectionFor the first time since the legalisation of euthanasia in 2002, a doctor may be prosecuted...
Iran’s legal market in kidneys creates a black market, too
The desperate and indebted are ready to sell their organsads posted in Teheran offering to sell kidneys Iran is the only country in the world...
Burial rights do not extend beyond death
The wishes of England's sadistic killer Ian Brady are not being respectedflowers at Saddleworth Moor where some of the victims were buried Where and how should...
Shrinks ganging up on Trump
And as you might expect, this has some support from Democrats in CongressA group of American psychiatrists is still trying hard to use the 25th...
President Trump rewards pro-life supporters
During his campaign, President Trump promised pro-life voters that he would support their agenda. And he has delivered. He reinstated the Mexico City policy; he...
Trump’s health department takes a pro-life turn
A new strategic plan defends life from conception to natural deathThe new strategic plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services has accomplished...
‘Human dignity’ is not ‘useless’
Even if bioethicist object, patients complain that they are not treated with dignity. So it must mean something Few concepts are more disputed in bioethics...
If Trump moves on bioethics, what kind of commission should he create?
There are at least two different schools of thought: consensus commissions and non-consensus commissionsToday is October 14. Two hundred and sixty-seven days have passed since...
The emerging technology of ‘synthetic embryology’
Scientists are facing whole new set of ethical issues Although experimentation on human embryos is tightly controlled in the United States. American scientists may have...
Gene of the week: divorce
If divorce is genetic, counselling has to changeDivorce does seem to run in families. Children whose parents were divorced have a higher risk of divorcing...