NY Times columnist attacks “liberal bioethics”
Progressive bioethics came under attack this week in the New York Times. Columnist Ross Douthat complained that the growing acceptance of “foetal reduction”, or the...
Does neuroethics have a future?
What is the half-life of ethical specialties? Following recent speculation about the future of bioethics, it seems to be getting shorter. What is the half-life...
Does bioethics have a future?
Despite pugnacious assertions of right and wrong, permissible and impermissible, the future of bioethics (and perhaps bioethicists, as well) is often clouded by self-doubt. Few...
Spain’s stolen generation
A painful chapter of Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War – the removal of children from mothers who were political opponents to be adopted out or even...
No easy answer to conscientious refusal to refer, says ethicist
Doctors who are unwilling either to supply a legal service or refer to a willing doctor should be disciplined or get out of medicine altogether,...
Why don’t surgeons study medical ethics?
Why don’t surgeons study more medical ethics, asks Daniel Sokol, of Imperial College London, in a provocative article in the BMJ.The Royal College for Surgeons,...
Bioethics for your smart phone
If you are a fan of Philosophy Bites, the addictive podcast site featuring intelligent 15-minute interviews with professional philosophers about their work, you should like...
Who really invented bioethics?
Who invented bioethics? The textbooks say that there are two contenders, both Americans: Van Rensselaer Potter, an oncologist, and Sargent Shriver, a benefactor of the...
The bioethics of revenge
Is there a bioethical angle to the killing of Osama bin Laden on Sunday? There is not much scope for analysing targeted assassination in terms...
Bahrain medics arrested for helping protesters
Major American medical associations have denounced arrests of Bahraini doctors and nurses who treated injured protesters. In a letter to the government, they say...Major American...
“Dishonest” hype inflated stem cell hope, say bioethicists
It’s difficult to think of bioethicists who differ on more issues than Robert P. George, of Princeton and Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania....
Medical oaths less of a moral compass for doctors
While most doctors participate in a medical school oath ceremony, few believe that this rite of passage has strongly shaped their sense of professionalism While...
