Russian billionaire offers immortality by 2045
The dream of achieving biological immortality may have taken a big step forward. A 31-year-old Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov, claims that his research team will...
Bourne gets enhanced!
Hollywood takes a definitive look at genetic enhancement in the latest instalment in the Bourne series, The Bourne Legacy – to be released next week....
Should Olympic athletes be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs?
The London Olympics have arrived and with them come familiar controversies over drug cheats. IOC President Jacques Rogge said yesterday that tests had identified more...
Will International Criminal Court hear complaint about Down Syndrome eugenics?
A New Zealand pro-life group has resorted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to get justice for Down Syndrome children. And, improbable as it seems,...
Compensation for victims of North Carolina eugenics program abandoned
North Carolina's effort to compensate victims of a widespread and decades-long eugenics program that extended into the 1970s was derailed in the State Senate this...
Are cognitive neuroenhancing drugs ethical? German ethicists say No
The near frontier of human enhancement is coffee on steroids: the drugs of the future that will make you smarter, sharper and quicker. This is...
“Love is the drug”, from the Best Of Julian Savulescu
Two Oxford bioethicists have proposed a novel solution to the scourge of 50% divorce rates – use love drugs to keep the flame of love...
Germany uneasy about teen cosmetic surgery
The German government is drafting legislation to ban cosmetic surgery for teenagers except for medical reasons. At the moment, there is no minimum age. As...
Should eugenics become a “fundamental human right”?
Should termination of Down syndrome foetuses be regarded as a fundamental human right? This is an issue which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)...
Cosmetic surgery at its best
"Saving Face" is a documentary about the tragic cases of Pakistani who have been disfigured by acid attacks. It follows London-based Pakistani plastic surgeon, Dr....
“Offensive” and “misleading” cosmetic surgery advertising under attack
Several prominent feminists and cosmetic surgeons have published a letter in the Guardian (UK) calling for a ban on cosmetic surgery advertising. Several prominent feminists...
The infanticide controversy: the editor
Julian Savulescu, the Australian philosopher who is now the director of Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, is ever controversial. He was a leading...