bioethics

Shameful anniversary, sham inquiry

Josephine Quintavalle | 24 October 2007 | comment 34

Forty years ago Britain passed a law that has facilitated 6.7 million abortions. A government inquiry has seen to it that nothing will change.

There’s more to life than discovering DNA

Michael Cook | 19 October 2007 | comment 51

Remarks by Nobel laureate James Watson have proved that there are worse crimes than being boring. Like being a eugenicist, for instance. 

Adult stem cells still trump embryonic

Monica Rafie | 16 October 2007 | comment 8

An exclusive interview with an Iowa scientist who is promoting adult stem cell research.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 02 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

A sad farewell to Amnesty

Pam Field | 30 September 2007 | comment 39

What do human rights mean if they do not include the most vulnerable humans of all, the unborn?

Challenging the prejudice of materialism

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary | 29 September 2007 | comment 3

A journalist and a neuroscientist maintain that morality and spirituality are more than electrical impulses in the brain.

Medical drama with a message

Rory Leishman | 29 September 2007 | comment 1

An intelligent life form has been discovered in the bleak galaxy of this season's TV programming.

Red, blue and grey matter

Michael Cook | 20 September 2007 | comment 11

American neuroscientists claim that liberalism and conservatism are located in the brain, in the anterior cingulate cortex, to be precise.

Dispossessed and forgotten: the new class of genetic orphans

Margaret Somerville | 18 September 2007 | comment 15

Being a mother or father used to be the only bond you could not break -- until the arrival of reproductive technology.

A new challenge for human dignity

Michael Cook | 08 September 2007 | comment 16

Britain's fertility regulator has just approved the creation of human-animal embryos for research. What's next?

How brave a new world?

Leon R. Kass | 31 August 2007 | comment 6

There is nothing "brave" or beautiful about the biotechnised world we are entering, says one of America's best-known bioethicists.

The crimes of Michael Vick

Michael Cook | 31 August 2007 | comment 21

When dogs die in Virginia, there's a media frenzy. When patients die in New Orleans, there's silence.

The woman from Meath

Frank Brennan | 16 August 2007 | comment 11

A palliative care physician remembers a moment of love.

Playing catch-up with scientific change

Stephen Buckle | 16 August 2007 | comment 3

One of the great cliches of modern journalism is that technology is racing far ahead of morals. A very convenient excuse, says a philosopher.

Should we create a market for making children?

Margaret Somerville | 10 August 2007 | comment 5

Powerful groups are lobbying to commercialise the fertility industry in Canada. They should be resisted.

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