African-American women fare worse with abortion: study
Should we question the public health benefits of abortion?The effects of abortion on African-American women seem to be significantly worse than on white or Hispanic...
Fancy a vaginoplasty? Think again
Transgender surgery in the United States is a kind of Wild Wild West of medicineThe popular feminist website Jezebel has a blog called “Barf Bag”,...
It’s about more than pushing up daisies
Why should we mourn the dead?The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a wide range of difficult ethical questions. Many relate to care for the vulnerable –care...
Free vial of sperm in Instagram giveaway
The gimmick provoked some controversy: “Imagine telling a child that they came from an Instagram giveaway.”The latest chapter in the Reproductive Revolution comes from Nova...
Russia rushes its vaccine
Russia has dashed across the finish line and seized the trophy for being the first nation to release a vaccine for Covid-19. It has been...
Russia rushes Covid-19 vaccine, dismaying bioethicists
President Putin says that one of his daughters has been inoculated Russia has become the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, even though it...
Are we heading towards ‘bioethics nationalism’?
Different bioethics for different countries? The coronavirus pandemic is placing unprecedented strains not only on economies and hospitals, but on bioethics, renowned bioethicist Jonathan Moreno...
Some Flemish doctors support legalization of infanticide: survey
Almost 9 out of 10 who do late-term abortions Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium who are willing to do...
Animal rights score big win in Pakistan – but what about human rights?
Let elephants go free, but keep ‘blasphemers’ locked up Animal rights activists are cock-a-hoop about a recent ruling by the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan....
The tide turns in the international surrogacy market
Now it’s Japanese and Chinese who are the exploiters International surrogacy is often reviled as a system in which Western, mostly white people, exploit the...
Should doctors manage the pandemic? No, says French philosopher
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, has harsh words for health professionals Earlier this year the coronavirus pandemic caught Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual,...
Splintering bioethics
In 1978 Tom Beauchamp and James Childress published their milestone textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Over at the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, they're throwing a birthday party...