Covid-19: we’re in the thick of it now. But who decides when it ends?
Oxford has set up a multi-disciplinary centre to study the issue Toward the end of his famous novel La Peste (The Plague), Camus remarks: “One...
Harvard Law School promotes legal rights for polyamory
Is it just about loving? Harvard University is a greenhouse for thought-leaders. So an initiative promoting polyamory rights at Harvard Law School suggests that a...
Another 4.7 million girls will go missing by 2030
The great gendercide continues Photo by Yogendra Singh on Unsplash Countries with a skewed sex ratio at birth because of a cultural preference for sons will...
Czech Republic and Roma
Sometimes, as a journalist, I feel like Winnie-the-Pooh, " a Bear of Very Little Brain”, when sifting through bioethics articles, which are normally very long,...
Czech Republic to compensate Roma women for forced sterilizations
The illegal procedures happened before and after Communism Prague The Czech Republic will compensate Roma (Gypsy) women who were forcibly sterilised both before and after...
First death under Western Australia’s new assisted dying law
An historic moment, says Premier Mark McGowan Australian readers will be interested to learn that a person has died under Western Australia’s new voluntary assisted...
Conscientious objection under fire
If you can invoke CO not to do abortions, why not appeal to CO to do them? Conscientious objection to abortion and euthanasia is a...
Viewing Covid deaths in nursing homes through a feminist lens
Society needs take personal relationships more into account Feminist bioethics may be good lens through which to assess how we care for the elderly, especially...
Why doesn’t the West help Africa as it staggers under Covid?
Liberian health official writes damning article in Nature The former director-general of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Mosoka Fallah, has written a scathing...
Did human genome editor He Jiankui deserve to be disgraced?
Not necessarily, say bioethicists He Jiankui in his salad days When Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced in late 2018 that he had helped to create...
Is wokeness invading American medical schools?
Is the notion of sex just socially constructed? In a case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019, a transgender man (a...
Biden Administration tries to incentivise vaccinations
President suggests that states offer $100 to people who get their jab According to the Biden Administration, 164 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, including...