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New book chronicles history of British bioethics
First in-depth study of how bioethicists shaped policyWhile contemporary bioethics took shape in the United States, parallel developments in Britain have been extremely important in...
Interview: Julian Savulescu, editor of JME
The editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics discusses the fraught job of editing a leading journal. Julian Savulescu / photo copyright John Robertson Julian...
Death penalty losing support in US
As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear evidence on botched executions in Oklahoma, the Pew Research Centre has released revealing new statistics on opinions...
Keystroke: the world of the medical thriller
"If my books stop selling, I can always fall back on brain surgery," jokes one author-physician. It could be that the public gleans most of...
Canadian bioethicist attacks conscientious objection
No doctor should have the right to conscientious objection, says Udo Schuklenk. The Canadian Medical Association is digging in its heels to protect doctors’ right...
Healthcare in hard times: Ukraine
More than politics is at stake in negotiations over a ceasefire between Ukraine and separatist rebels – healthcare in the affected regions is in a...
Summer school in bioethics in Manhattan
The Global Bioethics Initiative is offering a bioethics programme this summer. Interested in getting an overview of bioethics? A Manhattan-based NGO, the Global Bioethics Initiative,...
Nihilism across the globe
Hi there, Happy New Year! We’re back – and it has been a sombre week. Apart from the murders in Paris by Islamic terrorists there...
Swiss bioethicist backs organ donor euthanasia
The idea of using patients as organ donors if they request assisted suicide or euthanasia seems to be catching on. This is reasonably common in...
Lessons from Peru
I just stumbled across a documentary which was recently released in Peru, Cicatrices del engaño (Scars of Deception), about the 300,000 women and 22,000 men...
An eloquent defense of euthanasia by organ removal
In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, two Oxford bioethicists provide a lucid defense of euthanasia by organ removal. The notion of death by...