Fallout continues from infanticide article
The fallout from the “after-birth abortion” article in the Journal of Medical Ethics continues. The fallout from the “after-birth abortion” article in the Journal of...
‘Tis the season of fulminant fruitiness
Newspapers have their “silly season” of shock-horror absurdities in the slow news summer months. How about bioethics journals? When two very loopy articles surface in...
“Offensive” and “misleading” cosmetic surgery advertising under attack
Several prominent feminists and cosmetic surgeons have published a letter in the Guardian (UK) calling for a ban on cosmetic surgery advertising. Several prominent feminists...
Is informed consent on the skids?
Questions are being asked about the sacrasanct value of informed consent. Informed consent is one of the foundations of bioethical discourse. Bureaucrats have forced doctors...
Dutch activist found guilty of assisting a suicide
In the latest instalment of a long-running case, the former head of the Dutch Voluntary Life Foundation (Stichting Vrijwillig Leven) has been found guilty of...
Oregon: “wrongful birth” of Down syndrome child
An Oregon jury awarded nearly US$3 million to a couple whose daughter was born with Down syndrome after doctors had reassured them that the baby...
The infanticide controversy: the authors
On February 23 the Journal of Medical Ethics published “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, an article by two Italian ethicists working in Australia....
The infanticide controversy: the editor
Julian Savulescu, the Australian philosopher who is now the director of Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, is ever controversial. He was a leading...
Conservatives more likely to be psychopaths, says Florida prof
A new study in the journal Neuroethics claims that socially conservative views are between 5 to 30 times more likely to be related to anti-social...
Bioethics, a profession plagued by doubts
With two Italian/Australian bioethicists under attack in the media around the globe over the moral permissibility of infanticide, there are signs of the collywobbles in...
Study hits back at “genopolitics”
A couple of years ago political scientists from the University of California at San Diego made a media splash with their theory (published in Science!)...
a world scoop
Well, rejoice with us. BioEdge had its first world scoop. Last week, as far as I can determine, we were the first to pick up...