Are we heading towards ‘bioethics nationalism’?
Different bioethics for different countries? The coronavirus pandemic is placing unprecedented strains not only on economies and hospitals, but on bioethics, renowned bioethicist Jonathan Moreno...
Some Flemish doctors support legalization of infanticide: survey
Almost 9 out of 10 who do late-term abortions Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium who are willing to do...
Animal rights score big win in Pakistan – but what about human rights?
Let elephants go free, but keep ‘blasphemers’ locked up Animal rights activists are cock-a-hoop about a recent ruling by the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan....
The tide turns in the international surrogacy market
Now it’s Japanese and Chinese who are the exploiters International surrogacy is often reviled as a system in which Western, mostly white people, exploit the...
Should doctors manage the pandemic? No, says French philosopher
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, has harsh words for health professionals Earlier this year the coronavirus pandemic caught Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual,...
Euthanasia polling data may fail to capture people’s considered views
A biased picture of progressive illness may cloud people’s views on euthanasia. Public support for euthanasia in countries like the United States is quite strong...
Splintering bioethics
In 1978 Tom Beauchamp and James Childress published their milestone textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Over at the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, they're throwing a birthday party...
‘Black bioethics’ emerging as a rebellion against conventional bioethics
The field is splintering into many different factions For too long bioethics has ignored the health of African-Americans, contends Keisha Ray, a bioethicist at McGovern...
More evidence of correlation between transgender and autism in UK study
Transgender adults are six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more...
Disabled girl at centre of surrogacy case dies
Defying predictions, she had a happy life Serafina Harrell A girl with severe disabilities who made international headlines when her surrogate mother refused to abort...
Disability rights groups protest death of man in Texas hospital
What about the equal dignity of the disabled? Michael Hickson with his five children / photo from Melissa Hickson Late last month we reported the...
With Covid-19, the world needs more ‘infodemiologists’
Combatting a crisis in medical information on the internet The job of monitoring fake health news on the internet now has a name, specialist professionals...