What happens if soldiers get a “psychological vaccination”?
What happens if soldiers are taught to ignore compassion? American researchers are working on “psychological vaccination” against the horrors of war in order to help...
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...
Transhumanists gather in San Francisco
Humanity+ is on the move. America’s leading transhumanist conference took place earlier this month in San Francisco. Speakers at Humanity+ included gerontologist Aubrey de Grey,...
Another Hollywood bioethics lesson
The bioethics angle in Cloud Atlas. “Surely this is one of the most ambitious films ever made,” says critic Roger Ebert. And A.O. Scott, of...
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...
Transhumanism: the politician
The world’s first openly transhumanist politician is serving in a national parliament. Giuseppe Vatinno was elected in July for the Alleanza per l'Italia party in...
Transhumanism: the theologians
Transhumanism, at least in the Journal of Medical Ethics, has a distinctly theological flavour. Transhumanism, at least in the Journal of Medical Ethics, has a...
Does American medicine need more Vera Drakes?
Are abortion doctors brave souls who defy “stigma, marginalization within medicine, harassment, and threat of physical harm” to act in accordance with their consciences? Vera...
State to pay for Massachusetts murderer’s sex change
A Massachusetts man with gender identity disorder murdered his wife in 1990 when she discovered him wearing her clothes. He was sentenced to life in...
Paralympic cheats: is pain a drug?
In a practice called boosting, paralympic athletes subject their body to extreme pain to raise their blood pressure and heart beat. The former captain of...
Savulescu defends Olympic doping
Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has certainly won a lot of media exposure during the Olympic Games. He is a strong supporter of scrapping the zero-tolerance...
Dangerous experiment in foetal engineering alleged
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail troubling off-label prescription in the...