What the world needs now is more bioethicists. Or not?
In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, one of America’s leading voices in bioethics, Emanuel J. Ezekiel, said that Covid had...
Bioethics needs to take loneliness seriously
The Covid pandemic has confirmed that loneliness is a major public health issue, especially in a world with shrinking families and a greying population. Numerous...
Medical school allegedly mistreated corpses in Pakistan
A hospital in Pakistan has come under fire for dumping bodies used in anatomy classes on the roof and leaving them to decompose in the...
Does Giorgia Meloni have a bioethics program?
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia and Italy’s presumptive new prime minister, has views which must be sending a shiver down the spine of...
California to permit human composting
California has become the latest American state to allow composting of human remains after death. A new law directs California officials to develop regulations for...
Outspoken Yale psychiatrist fails to keep job after denouncing Trump as mentally ill
A psychiatrist who called President Trump mentally ill and was subsequently fired by Yale University has failed to keep her job after she sued for...
Australia’s cosmetic surgery industry under attack in the media
The multi-billion dollar cosmetic surgery industry in Australia has come under attack from the media. A series of investigations by The Age, Four Corners and...
Is politics invading a leading science journal?
An editorial in Nature Human Behaviour has sparked a lively debate over woke science and free speech. Its headline, “Science must respect the dignity and...
Iranian doctors cooperating with judicial amputations
A special guillotine machine has allegedly been installed in a medical clinic in an Iranian prison to carry out amputations. The World Medical Association has...
What happened to the bones of Waterloo?
One of the most dehumanising practices of the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps was recycling the bodies of murdered victims. Often their bones...
The wisdom of Albert Tochilovsky, owner of Ukraine’s biggest surrogacy business
Since the Kyiv-based IVF clinic BioTexCom is the probably the largest surrogacy agency in the world, its owner’s thoughts about the future of assisted reproduction...
Indian doctors are removing the wombs of cane-cutters to increase productivity
This is a horror story from India about the intersection of poverty, sexism, exploitation, gender norms, and medical ethics. Investigative reporting in BehanBox, a feminist...