Why do euthanasia rates vary across the Netherlands?
Some regions have 5 times as many euthanasia deaths as the lowest regions There is a seven-fold unexplained variation in rates of euthanasia across The...
Radical right-to-die activists arrested in France
Members of the Ultime Liberté association were allegedly trafficking in the banned suicide drug pentobarbital. Ten members of the Ultime Liberté association, which campaigns in...
Family splits over fate of unresponsive man in England
Catholic Church infuriated over decision to allow patient to starve to death The Catholic Church in England has protested strongly against a decision to withdraw...
A new Swiss group caters for Dutch who are not eligible for euthanasia
You might think that the Dutch, who live in a country where euthanasia is legal, would have no need for the schemes of Dr Philip...
Australians launch class action suit against IVF clinic over faulty embryo test
They are seeking compensation for economic loss and pain and suffering More than 100 – and potentially 1,000 -- patients of Monash IVF, a major...
Classics scholar slams transhumanism in new book
The stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are immeasurably high, says Susan Levin Books about transhumanism seem to fall into two categories: glowing with...
After all, what is really wrong with apotemnophilia?
New prosthetics could even improve function Long John Silver managed pretty well Apotemnophilia is one of those words which may be useful in Scrabble© but...
Do amazement, wonder, and awe have a place in bioethics?
An Australian bioethicist says Yes If it were to be written The Varieties of Bioethical Experience would be a book as big as a telephone...
Covid could be a Waterloo for the leading bioethical theory
Has the pandemic exposed the weaknesses of principlism? Napoleon gallops towards Waterloo Covid-19 is providing a stress test for bioethical theories. And it seems that...
2021 begins
Hi there, We’re back. If 2020 was unexpectedly weird and stressful, 2021 promises to be expectedly weird and stressful. Already we have had a terrible...
If fake medical news is dangerous, its authors should be jailed, says Polish lawyer
If Holocaust denial is a crime, why not vaccine denial? As vaccines for Covid-19 are rolled out across the world, fake medical news is becoming...
Doctors need to study the lessons of the Holocaust, says ethics journal
A sound medical education must recall Nazi atrocities The illustration for the editorial of the January issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics comes from...