New pope unlikely to change bioethics stand
Judging from his 2011 book Sobre Cielo y Tierra, the new Pope's stand on bioethical issues is fully in sync with his predecessors. New Pope...
UN report reframes bioethics as anti-torture ethic
A new United Nations report frames number of bioethical questions as issues of torture, giving a new twist to a number of controversial issues.A new...
Scrap “unwinnable” war on drugs and fight antibiotic misuse instead, says philosopher
Governments should stop squandering resources fighting an "unwinnable war" against illegal drugs. Instead, they should work on curbing antibiotic misuse, which poses a far more...
Inside the “fortress of death”
Dr Gunther von Hagens and his controversial Body Worlds exhibitions of plasticised human bodies and body parts have been out of the news for a...
Colorado hospital apologises over personhood dispute
Coloradans on both sides of the abortion debate were surprised that lawyers for a Catholic hospital were arguing that a fetus has no rights in...
Does Western bioethics ignore the family?
The emergence of a family centred bioethicsA conference in Singapore recently cast bioethics in a different light. Jim Sabin, a professor at Harvard Medical School,...
A surprise bioethics best-seller for 2013?
Here’s a New Year’s prediction. The world’s biggest-selling bioethics book this year will not be written by anyone from the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Harvard...
Responding to the Connecticut massacre
The massacre of 20 6 and 7-year-olds along with 6 staff at an elementary school in Connecticut is a ghastly tragedy. But what is the...
Massive fraud by Dutch psychologist shows weak side of scientific method
The credibility of the field of social psychology is at risk, a Dutch panel has found after reviewing massive misconduct by a researcher The credibility...
Savulescu and Harris debate enhancing morality
Two utilitarians slug it out over enhancing morality. Watch more videos on iai.tv Julian Savulescu, of Oxford University, and John Harris, of Manchester University, square...
Blow to Germany’s animal lovers
Germany is a very big blip on the radar of BioEdge’s Reproductive Revolution Weirdness Watch this week.Germany is a very big blip on the radar...
Prescribe morning-after pills to young teenagers, say US pediatric group
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called on pediatricians in the US to provide advice to all adolescent patients about emergency contraception, and...
