Doctors worried about shift to online self-diagnosis
Medical professionals have raised concerns about new software that encourages patients to "self-diagnose". Medical professionals have raised concerns about new software that encourages patients to...
Bioethicists challenge right to conscientious objection
Several bioethicists are campaigning for tight restrictions on conscientious objection in healthcare. The debate surrounding conscientious objection in healthcare has intensified in recent months, with...
Savulescu calls for ban on doctors’ conscientious objection
Does it lead to “bigoted, discriminatory medicine”? As politicians in the Australian state of Queensland debate controversial abortion laws, Oxford’s Julian Savulescu is calling for...
More donating their bodies to science
Rising cost of burials could be responsible Funeral homes are earning more through cremation of bodies donated to science More and more people are...
Getting down and dirty with bioethics
Oxford don tries living as a badger to expand his horizons In its most expansive mode, bioethics deals with the biosphere, our responsibility for all...
Who’s telling the truth about China’s bioethics?
Confusing signals from China over stem cells and organ transplants Somebody must be telling porkies about the state of ethics in China’s medical profession. In...
Interview: Dissecting the age of ‘do harm’ medicine
A leading voice in American bioethics peers into the future in his new book Wesley J. Smith is one of America's leading commentators on bioethical...
Chinese clinics advertise for sperm donors
But donation goes against strong cultural prejudices Chinese IVF centres are offering better and bigger rewards as they are failing to recruit enough sperm donors....
A surprising ethical conversion
A famous article in an issue of the 1966 New England Journal of Medicine was the trigger for the construction of contemporary medical ethics. The...
Let’s increase organ transplant rates by encouraging euthanasia patients to donate, say doctors
Specialists call for red tape to be cut to allow simpler donation procedures. Since 2005 about 40 people in Belgium and the Netherlands have successfully...
Interview: ‘democratic deliberation’ and bioethics
Recently we spoke with COL Nelson L. Michael about bioethical deliberation in an age of rapid social and scientific change. With an election round the...
Bioethics commission sets out game plan for creating consensus
Rapid innovation in the wake of the development of the CRISPR gene editing technology has not caught the US Presidential Commission for the Study of...