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Michael Cook
Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. He also writes a bioethics column for Australasian Science. |
Vale Edmund Pellegrino
Michael Cook | 15 Jun 2013 |
Edmund Pellegrino, a “conservative” bioethicist who won the respect of colleagues of all persuasions, died this week at the age of 92.
Pill to be available over the counter in US
Michael Cook | 15 Jun 2013 |
Convicted paedophile gets child from surrogate mother in India
Michael Cook | 15 Jun 2013 |
A convicted Israeli paedophile adopted a 4-year-old girl from a surrogate mother in India, the Jewish Chronicle has reported.
Indian women victimized in sterilization camps
Michael Cook | 15 Jun 2013 |
Sterilization of poor Indian women is still a major tool used by state governments to slow population growth.
Put disabled babies out of our misery, say Dutch doctors
Michael Cook | 14 Jun 2013 |
Distress felt by parents of a dying newborn can justify the child’s euthanasia, says Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG), which represents doctors in the Netherlands.
US ob-gyns tell governments to butt out of doctor-patient relationship
Michael Cook | 8 Jun 2013 |
Governments should butt out of the patient-doctor relationship, says an exasperated peak body for American doctors.
Sydney court ditches binary sexual identity
Michael Cook | 8 Jun 2013 |
A Sydney court of appeal has ruled that sex is not binary, ie, just male or female.
UN debates use of killer robots
Michael Cook | 8 Jun 2013 |
The ethics of using killer robots is adding a new subspeciality to bioethics.
Climate change is a bioethics issue, too
Michael Cook | 8 Jun 2013 |
Adventurous bioethicists seem to be continually pushing back the frontiers of their discipline. The latest conquest, or at least challenge, is climate change
Myanmar imposing population control on Muslim minority
Michael Cook | 1 Jun 2013 |
It is hard to imagine a more inhumane policy than China’s one-child policy. But there is one: the two-child policy imposed on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.
Switzerland: a suicide magnet
Michael Cook | 1 Jun 2013 |
To describe Switzerland as a Mecca for suicide tourism is hyperbole, but suicide facilities would draw as many people as yodelling and cowbells.
Switzerland’s “peculiar institution”
Michael Cook | 1 Jun 2013 |
What is the position of the law on assisted suicide in Switzerland?
Are Dutch doctors losing their nerve over euthanasia?
Michael Cook | 1 Jun 2013 |
Politicians in the Netherlands are pushing the organisation which represents Dutch doctors to overcome its misgivings over euthanasia for patients with dementia.
Nobel laureate marketing lifespan test
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
The Australian winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine is leveraging her discovery to market a test which will help people know their true health status and biological age.
Alzheimer's and the euthanasia debate
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
Negative attitudes towards Alzheimer’s disease are undue influence on the euthanasia debate, claims an Australian bioethicist.
The man who didn't die
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
A Montana man brain cancer diagnosis shows how difficult it is to determine whether or not a person has a “terminal illness”. Mark Templin was awarded US$59,000 for expenses and emotional stress after his doctor wrongly told him in 2009 that he had only six months to live.
Fear factor: first pre-emptive removal of prostate
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
Following the highly publicised pre-emptive double mastectomy of Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie, it has emerged that a 53-year-old British man has become the first in the world to have a pre-emptive removal of his prostate.
Jinxed? Problems with landmark paper on human cloning
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
Last week we reported that researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University had finally cloned human embryos and successfully extracted embryonic stem cells.This was a feat which scientists agreed was possible but was proving unexpectedly difficult. The last time the claim was made, by South Korean Hwang Woo-suk in 2005, it turned out to be a colossal fraud which embarrassed leading journals and dampened enthusiasm for “therapeutic cloning”. Unfortunately, the most recent paper has also been criticised for image duplication, evoking the nightmarish Hwang scandal
Dan Brown’s latest thriller tackles transhumanism
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
Inferno: Robert Langdon is back with a globe-trotting thriller in which the symbologist has to decode clues left in a map of Dante’s masterpiece by a recently-deceased evil genius before one-third of the world perishes. Oops, we are about to give away too much of the plot. Suffice it to say that the master of transmuting highbrow trivia, European travel guides and clunky prose into dollars has framed transhumanism as the most dangerous threat to the future of mankind.
Al-Jazeera examines Australia's tussle with euthanasia
Michael Cook | 23 May 2013 |
This 25-minute documentary by Al-Jazeera presents a balanced view of the campaign for euthanasia in Australia. No presentation will satisfy everyone, but this one, "Licence to Kill", presents articulate folk on both sides of the question. Definitely worthwhile.
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