Warnock offers advice in Nature
With the British Parliament deliberating the further liberalisation of its fertility laws to allow hybrid human-animal embryos, the leading journal Nature has sought guidance from...
Government too lax on conscientious objectors, complains BMA
The British Medical Association and the UK body which disciplines doctors have clashed over conscientious objection. The General Medical Council is drafting new guidelines on...
HIPPOCRATIC OATH FOR SCIENTISTS PROPOSED
The British government's chief scientific adviser has launched a code of ethics for scientists. Professor Sir David King said that the new code will help...
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN AMERICAN MEDICINE
Nearly 100 million Americans are at risk of being denied "legal medical interventions" by religious doctors, according to a feature article in the New England...
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION GROWS IN THE US
Conscientious objection is becoming more and more prominent in bioethical discussion, according to an article in the Washington Post. Growing religious fervour and the introduction...
BIOETHICIST SLAMS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Amongst the paradoxes of contemporary bioethics are simultaneous appeals to individual conscience as the arbiter of murky moral issues and disdain for conscientious objection by...
CORNELL UPDATES HIPPOCRATIC OATH
A leading American medical school has revised the Hippocratic Oath to take account of contemporary values. Weill Cornell Medical College's version is more inclusive and...
The challenge of conscientious objection
The influential New England Journal of Medicine appears to be backing moves to curtail conscientious objection to medical procedures like providing contraception or participating in...
