The complicity of health and medical personnel in post-9/11 torture is a stain on my profession
A consultant psychiatrist at Freedom from Torture decries the 'shameful complicity' of health professionals. As the American psychologist and architect of the Bush-era torture programme,...
Fast to play – why popularity growth
This is one of the ways that you can keep your game interesting and this will keep you coming back to the site. and playing....
More about Belgium’s euthanasia trial
Belgium's historic trial of three doctors for illegally killing a mentally ill woman in 2010 gives a glimpse of what's going on backstage in its...
Belgian trial is unveiling dark back story to euthanasia death of Tine Nys
Sadder and more complicated The three doctors on trial / Belga The criminal trial of three Belgian doctors for assisting in an allegedly illegal euthanasia...
Trump aligns himself with pro-life movement
Addresses huge crowd at Washington DC rally It is inevitable that bioethics intersects with politics. This week US President Donald Trump was the main attraction...
Surrogate mother dies in California
Surrogacy could be more dangerous that people think Michelle Reaves and her family / GoFundMe In a tragic reminder that surrogacy is not only morally...
Can a foetus feel pain as early as 12 weeks?
We need to revisit the issue, say ethicists The debate over abortion is not just about women’s reproductive rights. It is also about science. And...
Quebec to allow euthanasia for mental illness
The Canadian province of Quebec will expand the eligibility criteria for euthanasia to include people with severe and incurable mental illness, says Health Minister Danielle...
Will love potions be the future of relationships?
Evolution has designed us for shorter relationships Titania in love with Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Edwin Landseer The transhumanist impulse to supplement...
US scientists manufacture first living machines out of frog skin and heart cells
Exciting new uses The anatomical blueprint for a computer-designed organism and the living organism itself / Sam Kriegman, UVM A book is made of wood. But it...
Euthanasia on trial
The year has just begun and already we are being faced with some thorny bioethical issues, as we report in the links below: Will countries...
Historic first trial of euthanasia doctors begins in Belgium
A death in 2010 finally comes to court Tine Nys (centre) with her two sisters Next Tuesday commences an historic trial in Belgium – the...