Decline and fall is back
New theories of genetic degeneracy The nightmare of genetic degeneracy has been a recurring theme ever since Darwinian evolution took hold of the popular imagination....
World Medical Association strengthens opposition to capital punishment
The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment with a resolution...
US nurses strongly oppose assisted suicide
The American Nurses Association is reaffirming its strong opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide. Despite campaigns in several states for the legalisation of assisted suicide...
Are drugs or democracy our bulwark against the apocalypse?
A new book by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu, Unfit for the Future, fills in the case for biomedical moral enhancement which they have been...
“A Black Day for Bahrain”
Bahrain jailed six health workers earlier this month for their role in last year’s pro-democracy uprising Bahrain jailed six health workers earlier this month for...
I’m not the Nazi; you’re the Nazi
Julian Savulescu has the perfect riposte Julian Savulescu, the utilitarian bioethicist at Oxford University, has the perfect riposte when his opponents tell him that his...
A Nobel Prize for ethics?
This year's laureates are both stem cell scientists. Two stem cell researchers have shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2012, an elderly Briton, Sir...
Bioethics on the campaign trail
The Hastings Center, a leading bioethics think tank in New York, has created a table comparing the positions of Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican...
The next challenge for conscientious objectors
Hi there, During an election fought over the Obama administration’s health care law, the nature and limits of conscientious objection are lively topics. Not being...
Queer bioethics holds its first conference
The novel field of “queer bioethics” held its first national conference today at the University of Pennsylvania. The novel field of “queer bioethics” held its...
Bioethics under attack in new book
The latest book in the Basic Bioethics Series published by The MIT Press is a scathing attack on the whole discipline of bioethics.The latest book...
Human exceptionalism is for the birds
Here’s something we missed about the uniqueness of human beings. In July the Francis Crick Memorial Conference, at Cambridge University, decided that we aren’t as...