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....
Canadian hospice could be defunded because it opposes euthanasia
A small hospice in British Columbia may lose funding over its MAiD policy. A small hospice in British Columbia risks losing public funding over its...
Trump Administration’s ‘conscience rule’ blocked by federal judge
Supporters of abortion welcomed the decision A federal judge this week voided the Trump administration’s “conscience rule,” which had made it easier for health care...
Savulescu interviewed on ‘procreative beneficence’
This interview gives a good insight into his theoriesShould we use genetic testing to choose which children to bring into the world? How should we...
In defence of conscientious objection
A leading ethics journal has published a feature issue on conscientious objectionA newly released edition of the journal Perspectives in Medicine and Biology focuses on...
Is bioethics fading away?
Sociologists will inherit their mantle, says Cambridge sociologist The etymological roots of the word “bioethics” suggest that its subject is the principles governing the morality...
Medical ethics: too important to leave to doctors
Let’s not return to the bad old days of paternalism In an article earlier this year in the Journal of Medical Ethics and in a...
Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism turns 40
The Principles of Biomedical Ethics is unrivaled in its influence. Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s 1979 tome Principles of Biomedical Ethics (PBE) is widely seen...
Globally, opposition to euthanasia dwarfs end-of-life movements
World Medical Association reaffirms opposition Jurisdictions which permit assisted suicide or euthanasia suck all the oxygen out of media coverage of this topic. To put...
When will #MeToo blow the whistle on IVF clinic pornography?
Porn is an essential part of clinic services Why hasn’t the #MeToo movement protested the close connection between the pornography industry and IVF clinics? Most...
Abortion legalised in Australia’s most populous state
Fierce debate threatened to fracture government NSW Parliament Abortion will be legal everywhere in Australia after the New South Wales Parliament passed a bill decriminalising...