Euthanasia debate flares up in Australia
The debate over legalising euthanasia has flared up again in Australia, with both opponents and advocates making spirited contributions. The debate over legalising euthanasia has...
US Supreme Court considers religious exemptions to Obamacare
The US Supreme Court has announced that it will hear another case concerning religious exemptions to the prescriptions laid down by Obamacare. The case in...
Mandating compassion
How are we to achieve a compassionate healthcare system? How are we to achieve a compassionate healthcare system? This question has been posed in various...
Donor conception: 10 years without anonymity
10 years after the end of donor anonymity, UK healthcare analysts are coming to different conclusions about the benefits of the policy. Roughly a decade...
How should the media cover euthanasia?
Do ethical guidelines for suicide apply to activists' campaigns? Because media coverage of suicide could easily lead to copycat suicides, in 2008 the World Health...
Ben Carson: the candidate from bioethics
Hardly anyone mentions the neurosurgeon's extensive experience in the controversial field of bioethics. During the George W. Bush administration, Ben Carson was a member of...
An excursion into time machine ethics
We missed this, sorry, but October 21 was #BackToTheFutureDay, the day Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future II. The internet was abuzz...
Redefining the rules of war
Medecins San Frontieres has accused the US special forces of “war crimes” after an American AC-130 gunship attacked a field hospital in the northern Afghan...
Delusional but autonomous
A British man chooses to die rather than lose his leg. Can a confused, lonely, bi-polar, sick 73-year-old with religious delusions refuse an operation which...
Surrogacy business shifts to Cambodia
The international market for surrogacy is proving to be very resilient in the face of legal and social disruption The international market for surrogacy is...
India restricts access to surrogate mothers
The Indian government has introduced strict new laws that will prohibit foreigners from commissioning Indian women to bear their children. Suzanne Lee / Panos London...
Silicon Valley becomes a bioethical testing ground
Internet giants move into medical research. Apple's promotional video for ResearchKit Silicon Valley start-up 23andMe, as well as internet giants Google, Facebook and Apple,...