US should stop physician participation in detainee force-feeding, say ethicists
Article in PLoS concludes with call to respect conscientious objection The US government should rescind directives authorizing participation of health professionals in interrogation and force-feeding...
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Happy Christmas! The staff of BioEdge will be taking a break over the holiday. Our next newsletter will be on January 8. Thanks for all...
Hammering out the details in Canada’s new euthanasia regime
Canada could soon have the world's most liberal euthanasia laws Last February Canada’s Supreme Court declared that denying patients access to assisted suicide and euthanasia...
When Ebola breaks out again, whose fault will it be?
There has been a moral failure to confront serious epidemics The West African ebola outbreak has been largely contained. Now the world can sit back,...
Mexico closes door to cheap surrogate mothers
Tabasco restricts surrogacy to Mexican nationals Surrogate mothers in the surrogacy agency home last year. The agency was forced into involuntary bankruptcy and is being...
US clinics obliged to offer fertility services to transgenders
ASRM issues official statement The peak body for assisted reproduction in the US has dispelled lingering doubts amongst its members and declared that providing reproductive...
The top tech ethical issues of 2016
From talking Barbie to CRISPRWhat will the top ethical dilemmas of technology be in 2016? The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values...
Interview: David S. Oderberg
A highly critical look at contemporary bioethical discourse by a UK philosopher. David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK,...
What’s life worth, anyway?
Now that Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke has burned his medical registration rather than give up promoting the right to die, he is tackling his...
Should high school football be banned?
Experts say that the risk of serious disability from concussion is too great. Bioethics is closing in on American football. An expert on concussion writing...
Somerville vs Savulescu on gene editing
Two prominent bioethicists debate the leading issue of the day The debate over editing the human genome is bound to continue for a long time,...
Most research using foetal tissue focuses on infectious diseases
Figures from NIHFoetal tissue research has featured prominently in headlines this year, after an anti-abortion activist group filmed Planned Parenthood officials talking about sales of...