Treatment disagreement gets ugly in Western Australia
A Perth hospital has obtained a court order to force chemotherapy on the child. The parents of a six-year-old West Australian boy have spoken of...
Racism and bioethics
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics considers the role that bioethics can play in addressing racism A new edition of the American...
No monkey business: pig to baboon organ transplants increasingly successful
A team of researchers in the US have performed a series of remarkably successful interspecies organ transplants. A team of researchers in the US have...
More changes to donor law considered in NSW
The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo donation The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo...
Absolute morality garners trust, says new study
People who hold to moral absolutes in ethical dilemmas appear to be more trusted than those who engage in a cost/benefit analysis. In an innovative...
Playing the bioethical Trump card
What do bioethicists think of Donald Trump? What do bioethicists think of Donald Trump? Probably not much. Trump views on bioethical issues are either ill-defined...
Is disability a disadvantage or a mere difference?
Renewed interest in disability and philosophy has culminated in some spirited academic debate Philosophical reflection on disability has a history, yet it is only...
Are minors capable of informed consent?
Two UK doctors have called for a sweeping review of adolescent consent protocols. In an article recently published (online-first) in the Journal of Medical Ethics,...
Nurses have a human right to be good Catholics
a young Cambridge PhD candidate has reiterated his challenge the British medical establishment. Florence Nightingale In a provocative guest post on the Journal of Medical...
Euthanasia activist posthumously confesses to killing eight people
A now-deceased Canadian assisted dying activist has admitted to breaking Canadian law and killing eight people seeking euthanasia. A now-deceased Canadian assisted dying activist has...
Unilateral ‘do not resuscitate’ orders: what doctors think
Most US pediatricians believe DNAR orders are in some cases ethically permissible. In an article published online this week in the Journal of Medical Ethics,...
Donor anonymity legislation – a moral quagmire
Ethicists and doctors have slammed recently passed legislation in the Australian state of Victoria that will revoke the anonymity of sperm donors. Ethicists and doctors...