World’s first total penis and scrotum transplant raises ethical questions
Afghan veteran maimed by IED is optimistic about his future A reconstructive surgery team at Johns Hopkins University has successfully performed the world’s first total...
Trump Administration pushes back against reproductive rights as human rights
What do they really mean, asks State Department official Ambassador Michael Kozak at release of US government's human rights report More pushback from the Trump...
Old habits die hard
Should China get an F in bioethics? "Practice birth control for the revolution - freely supplied contraceptives". 1975 poster promoting the one-child policy Writing in...
Human brain organoids flourish in the heads of mice
Progress raises some delicate ethical issuesHuman brain tissue integrates and thrives in the brains of mice, according to a report in Nature Biotechnology. Using brain...
‘Asperger syndrome’ now has a different meaning
The renowned physician may have been a Nazi collaboratorExperience shows that the practice of naming diseases and syndromes after physicians may carry an ethical burden....
How do the Dutch respond to euthanasia requests from the intellectually disabled?
Not with great insight or sensitivity, according to a recent study How do intellectually disabled people fare in a country where euthanasia and assisted suicide...
Disability and euthanasia
Mahatma Ghandi reputedly said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” We could paraphrase this in a contemporary context: a...
Assisted suicide has slow take-up in DC
Only two doctors have signed up A year after assisted suicide was legalised in the District of Columbia, no one has taken advantage of it....
Wanted: ideologically sound Chinese sperm. Willing to pay top renminbi
Must also love the socialist motherland Eugenics – “good stock” -- comes in all shapes and sizes. In China, the latest definition of what is...
In post-one-child-policy China posthumous conception is a matter of desperation
Grandparents sue to perpetuate bloodline An underground market in surrogacy is booming in China after the Communist Party reversed the decades-old one-child policy. Nothing illustrates...
The contradictions of commercial surrogacy
Why are the mothers left holding the baby if the parents walk? Commercial surrogacy contains inherent contradictions about the status of the mother, according to...
CRISPR on the rampage
Especially in Chicago where a CRISPR gorilla runs amok CRISPR gene editing is one of the most exciting technologies of recent years, although most of...