Does medicine have a telos?
A new edition of a prominent journal takes aim at teleology in medico-ethical theory. Medical practice has changed rapidly in recent decades. Debates challenging essentialist...
A dissenting view of modern bioethics
Physicians are marginalized, and individual autonomy in patient decision-making has been effectively negated Today, your doctor is likely to be a "stranger at the bedside,"...
Switzerland: Minelli cleared; doctors OK to help in assisted suicide
Dignitas founder found innocent of 'profiteering'The founder of Switzerland’s best known assisted suicide group, Dignitas, has been cleared of charges of “profiteering” from helping people to...
May doctors refuse IVF to LGBT individuals?
Is it only Christians who take refuge in conscientious objection? Rows over conscientious objection, at least in the Anglosphere, have revolved around reproductive rights and...
Should driverless cars be utilitarian or egalitarian?
Why kind of ethics should we program into driverless cars? Debate over self-driving cars has intensified in the US following the two driverless vehicle fatalities...
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...
‘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....
Macron encourages French bishops to speak out on bioethics
Society needs to be reminded of the transcendent. In a speech on Monday that garnered both criticism and praise, French President Emmanuel Macron told a...
The morally messy world of international NGOs
When are they complicit in the actions of oppressors? The topic of complicity, or cooperation in evil, poses a particular problem for the utilitarian ethics...
Is the World Medical Association going to change on euthanasia?
FIAMC claims that the WMA is planning tacit support for euthanasiaEven though the legalisation of euthanasia has been gathering momentum around the world, the World...
Conscientious objection twisting in the wind in Canada
For years bioethicists of a utilitarian cast have argued that conscientious objection has no place in medicine. Now Canadian courts are beginning to put their...
Canadian court tells doctors they must refer for euthanasia
An Ontario court has told a group of doctors that they must refer for MAiD. An Ontario court has told a group of doctors that...