The latest goss on infanticide
A Washington Post blog has announced that the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, is preparing a special issue on infanticide. A...
First IVF mother dies
Lesley Brown, the woman who gave birth to the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, died this week after a short illness at the age of...
Full-contact bioethics
What sinks a job application also sinks a bioethics article. That is the conclusion to be drawn from a scathing review of an article in...
Bioethicist denounces silence on Taliban polio vaccine ban
Bioethicist Art Caplan has denounced international silence after a powerful Taliban leader in northern Pakistan banned the vaccination of 161,000 children against polio. Bioethicist Art...
Blackstone on suicide
Hi there, Of the study of the law I confess that I have lived many years in happy ignorance. However, the other day I happened...
Jehovah Witness who refused transfusion allowed to die in UK
Two cases involving Jehovah Witnesses who refused blood transfusions are in the news: a 22-year-old with sickle cell anaemia who died in the UK and...
Finger-lickin’ good is not a good enough reason
More chicken are killed by humans than any other land animal. This is morally wrong, argues an Australian bioethicist More chicken are killed by humans...
Canada edges closer to legalising assisted suicide
The issue of euthanasia in Canada is no longer simmering on a back burner. After the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that Criminal Code...
UK ethics group backs “three-parent” embryos
A leading UK ethics group has backed the creation of "three-parent" IVF babies to battle rare genetic diseases. The London-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics could...
BMJ backs “neutrality” on assisted dying
The British Medical Journal has declared that the legalisation of assisted dying is inevitable and that British doctors should move from opposition to neutrality.The British...
Peter Singer given Australia’s highest honour
The controversial bioethicist Peter Singer has received Australia’s highest civil honour. He has been made a Companion of the Order of Australia “for eminent service...
Waving farewell to Ray Bradbury
Hi there, I'd like to take a break from frivolous stuff about organ transplants and IVF and clinical trials. Ray Bradbury has died and it's...