Who is a real bioethicist?
Should you have recognised credentials to practice as a clinical bioethicist? Should you have recognised credentials to practice as a clinical bioethicist? According to an...
Humanising doctor-patient relations
Medical students paired with dying patients The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, in a new initiative to humanise doctor-patient relations, pairs medical...
Interview: George J. Annas on Worst Case Bioethics
Can American health survive worst case scenarios?George J. Annas, of Boston University, is one of America’s best-known bioethicists. In this exclusive interview, he answers questions...
Has Jodi Picoult subscribed to BioEdge? She should
May 8, 2010 Hi there, This week we had to sift through a number of interesting stories and articles in professional journals. It's impossible to...
BMJ editorial backs castration of sex offenders
Disputed by Italian doctors Simmering away in the pages of the British Medical Journal is a debate over the merits of surgical or chemical castration...
Top US bioethicists clash
Ezechiel Emanuel criticised by Arthur Caplan Back in August, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) took the unusual step of publicly denouncing the...
Pascal’s Wager taken out of deep freeze
UK ethicist defends cryonics What would the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal think of cryogenics -- the business of freezing people until...
Are bioethicists bioethical?
ome philosophers have their doubts Here’s a bit of fun for professional bioethicists. A forthcoming paper in the philosophy journal Mind discusses the ethics of...
Novel defences for conscientious objection
Surprisingly, in the Journal of Medical Ethics Should doctors employed by a government hospital be allowed to make a conscientious objection to abortion? A British...
Women prisoners shackled during birth in US prisons
Some could be violent, say prison officials There's always something new to be learned about life in American prisons. According to an indignant editorial in...
The road ahead for Obama’s bioethics
More consultation is the future Now that the President’s Council for Bioethics has passed on to the bureaucrats’ burying ground, what will replace it? The...
Obama disbands bioethics council
Sudden but expected The US President’s Council on Bioethics has been disbanded. Members were told last week that their services were no longer needed and...