Bioethics

Are animals persons?
Margaret Somerville | 27 January 2010
If we grant personhood to some animals, we will end up taking it away from some human beings.

50 years of the Pill
Jose A. Bufill | 15 January 2010
On May 9, 1960, the FDA took the momentous step of approving the contraceptive pill for birth control.

Is death better than disability?
Michael Cook | 11 January 2010
Whom better to ask than the disabled? They give some surprising answers.

Terminating Korea’s abortion culture
Sang-duk Shim | 13 December 2009
A Korean gynaecologist explains why he abandoned a lucrative procedure and is campaigning to reduce abortions.

Is bioethics an American plot?
Anthony Fisher | 04 December 2009
"Principalism" has spread like a virus through the world of medical ethics. But is it objective or is it a form of values imperialism?

Locked in without a key
Michael Cook | 03 December 2009
Why are some bioethicists and scientists so sceptical of the incredible story of a paralysed Belgian man who began to communicate after 23 years?

The puzzle of human dignity
Margaret Somerville | 26 November 2009
Both sides of the euthanasia debate claim to be advancing the cause of human dignity. Whom should we believe?

Would euthanasia damage doctors?
Margaret Somerville | 18 November 2009
Legalising euthanasia will have incalculable consequences for doctors and nurses.

Have death panels already arrived?
Nancy Valko | 13 November 2009
The case against: an experienced nurse worries that Obamacare will entrench an existing quality-of-life ethic.

Give me ObamaCare and my grandmom is doomed?
Summer Johnson | 13 November 2009
The case for: a leading American bioethicist defends the Obama Administration’s proposals as fairer, cheaper and more trustworthy.

Death panel dudgeon
Michael Cook | 26 October 2009
A very public disagreement between two prominent American bioethicists shows that they have only themselves to blame for attacks on their profession.

Ethics of paying for test-tube babies
Margaret Somerville | 16 September 2009
If society pays the costs for creating test-tube babies, we also have to accept the ethical responsibility.

A tarnished gold standard
Michael Cook | 17 August 2009
The last-ditch defence for experimenting with human embryonic stem cells is that they are a “gold standard” for stem cell research. Nonsense.

Babies have a right to a heritage
Brenda Almond | 13 August 2009
Fertility clinics are creating a new class of dispossessed human beings.

Past your “use by” date? What’s next?
Margaret Somerville | 19 May 2009
Dying human beings are not disposable products.

Aping their betters
Margaret Somerville | 05 December 2008
If animals co-operate to benefit their community, does it mean they are ethical beings?

Time to throw in the towel
Michael Cook | 08 September 2008
The ideas of a well-established bioethicist are so weird that it makes one despair of bioethics itself.

Human dignity, what a stupid idea!
Michael Cook | 18 May 2008
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker attacked over article on human dignity in The New Republic

Treat your goldfish well – or else!
Michael Cook | 03 May 2008
Depriving a goldfish of fishy companions has become a crime in Switzerland.

No more business as usual for stem cell research
Michael Cook | 12 January 2006
Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.

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