Coping with ALS
Neurodegenerative disease is often cited as a reason for requesting assisted suicide or euthanasia. So insights into the motivations of profoundly disabled persons who want...
Ivy League agrees to tackling ban
Concussion scares lead to changed coaching Dartmouth clashes with Yale in 2009 (AP Photo/Bob Child) In January Steven H. Miles and Shailendra Prasada argued in...
Canadian ethicists prepare for the worst
They may not have the right to conscientious objection over euthanasia. Conscientious objection seems like the paradigmatic ethical choice between right and wrong. An ethicist,...
Sanitizing the language of clinical trials
When did subjects of medical experiments become "medical heroes"" Which would you rather participate in: a medical study or a medical experiment? Almost everyone prefers...
Treating racist patients
Should hospitals accommodate them? Should doctors? Here’s an interesting ethical conundrum. How should a doctor respond if he or she is rejected because a racist...
Nurse ignites debate over euthanasia in Portugal
Claims of covert deaths in public hospitals. The head of Portugal's national nurses' association has blown the whistle on covert euthanasia in public hospitals. Ana...
Costa Rica’s battle with IVF
A protracted struggle in the courts still has no resolution. Couples who want Costa Rica's IVF ban lifted in a meeting last year with President Luis...
The nuts and bolts of CIA torture
No matter how low the ethical bar is set, doctors cannot be complicit Can doctors participate in torture if there is a reasonable expectation of...
“At some point, I stopped looking back”
Italian who once made an appointment with Dignitas has top job in government. A man who has suffered for 14 years from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis...
Buck v Bell, one of the Supreme Court’s worst mistakes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr may have been the most influential justice of the past 100 years to serve on the US Supreme Court. He was...
Sweden could ban surrogacy
Government report recommends a stop to both altruistic and commercial surrogacy Eva Wendel Rosberg with Justice Minister Morgan Johansson. Photo: Erik Nylander / TT ...
Is there a difference between genetic engineering and eugenics?
It is an oft-raised concern that genetic engineering may one day morph into a eugenics movement. It is an oft-raised concern that genetic engineering may...
