Canadian bioethicists sunk in dejection over government inaction
The bioethics community in Canada is enraged at the Harper Government’s refusal to appoint a strong and formally credentialed leader. The bioethics community in Canada...
Is a day of doom looming for bioethics?
Predictions of a Ragnarök for bioethics surface regularly in academic journals. Ragnarök is the day in Norse mythology when gods and men meet their doom....
US lawmakers protest against incinerating foetuses with medical waste
The practice of incinerating aborted foetuses as part of waste-to-energy programs could be a common practice in the United States. Is the practice of incinerating...
Great suffering software!
Oxford bioethicist Anders Sandberg asks whether software can suffer. If so, what are the ethics of creating, modifying and deleting it from our hard drives?...
Top employment strategies for discouraging conscientious objection
In a recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, controversial bioethicist Francesca Minerva argues for limiting the number of conscientious objectors in Italian hospitals.In a response...
One can always say ‘no’
What role do genes and the wiring of the brain play in criminal action? A new study from researchers in the Netherlands offers a first-person...
Spanish university’s Gallery of Horrors
Spain's number one university has been slammed for mistreating cadavers donated for medical research. Hundreds of bodies were piled on top of each other in...
What’s the big deal with artificial intelligence?
Stephen Hawking recently wrote an article warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Nobody seemed too concerned. Stephen Hawking recently co-authored an article in the...
The ethics and science of prenatal testing for autism
Leading researcher Simon Baron-Cohen believes that significant obstacles, both scientific and ethical, remain before we can undertake prenatal testing for autism. Prenatal testing for autism...
Syrian government “systematically targets” medical personnel
The Syrian government has been systematically targeting medical personnel, according to a damning new report. In September last year BioEdge reported that combatants in Syria...
Moral bioehancement debate intensifies
Bioenhancement has been receiving increased attention since the 2013 publication of Julian Savulescu and Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement by Julian...
Lord Winston warns of eugenics in IVF
Lord Robert Winston, British IVF pioneer, has given a controversial speech warning of the revival of eugenics in the IVF industry. Lord Robert Winston, British...