Should lockdown protesters forfeit their right to medical care?
Some bioethicists have little sympathy for them Protests in US state capitals against coronavirus lockdowns have become a familiar feature of nightly news bulletins. In...
Unclean! Unclean!
Maskless shopper sparks panic How much of a help are masks in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Absolutely essential, it seems, to New Yorkers. One woman...
Is bioethics an honest profession? The jury’s still out
Two practitioners hit back at scepticism Back in 1976, a young bioethicist named Peter Singer wrote, “bioethics is still in its infancy, and its rich...
Covid-19 pandemic strands babies in Georgia, too
Ukraine is not alone A birth at Chachava Clinic in Tbilisi About a hundred babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine are separated from the parents...
Armenia takes drastic measures to reverse population decline
Testing 15-year-olds? Not getting any younger in Armenia The tiny but fiercely distinctive and geo-politically strategic nation of Armenia is facing a demographic crisis. Its...
Monkeying around with coronavirus
The number and range of articles about Covid-19 in the bioethics arena alone is staggering. However, the topic of privacy and confidentiality has not been...
Immunity passports controversy
The coronavirus pandemic should have been an Iwo Jima moment for utilitarian bioethicists with their flag fluttering proudly on a blood-soaked hilltop. After all, the emergency...
Immunity passports: a privacy nightmare or the key to ending lockdowns?
The WHO opposes the idea The ethics of immunity passports is certain to become a focus for national debates as coronavirus lockdowns ease up. Estonia...
‘Don’t call them heroes’
The label could hurt healthcare workers Healthcare workers in the coronavirus epidemic are everywhere being praised as heroes (except Russia – see the next story)....
Nobody calls them ‘heroes’ in Russia
Healthcare workers viewed as whining money-grubbers Over the past few weeks TV news has often featured public appreciation of healthcare workers, whether it was Prime...
Ukraine surrogacy agency faces criticism
Catholic prelates call it ‘contempt for human dignity’ The surrogacy agency which released a video showing dozens of babies stranded in a hotel in Ukraine...
‘We’re all vitalists now’, Oxford ethicist tells utilitarians
Utilitarians have been overlooked In a characteristically provocative article, Oxford medical ethical ethicist Charles Foster observes that, in the current emergency, policy-makers the world over...