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.

Wife critical of journalist husband’s trip to Swiss suicide clinic

Michael Cook | 11 Nov 2018 |

tags: assisted suicide, uk

‘His death feels unresolved’

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FGM has fallen over past three decades

Michael Cook | 11 Nov 2018 |

tags: female genital mutilation

Signals success of international initiatives

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Australian assisted suicide a world first

Michael Cook | 11 Nov 2018 |

tags: assisted suicide, australia

A pastor coerced his wife into committing suicide for the life insurance

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Will Canada continue to ban advance directives?

Michael Cook | 11 Nov 2018 |

tags: advance directives, canada, euthanasia

Woman uses her euthanasia death to lobby for change

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Surrogacy under threat after Trump vows to remove birthright citizenship

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: donald trump, surrogacy law

Deals could become legally fraught

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Did the leader in California’s governor’s race assist his mother’s suicide?

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: assisted suicide, california, physician assisted suicide

Gavin Newsom makes a startling admission in interview with The New Yorker

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Merck & Co attacked after it pulls out of West African deal to supply rotavirus vaccine

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: big pharma, pharmaceutical industry

Conflicting views on why Merck is selling to China but not to Africa

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“Wow, we both got to carry the baby”

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: ivf, reproductive revolution, same-sex parenting, surrogacy

Another chapter in the Reproductive Revolution

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‘I feel your pain!’ Really?

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: god, pain, religion

Why do Americans suffer more nowadays?

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German nurse confesses to 100 murders; could be many more

Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |

tags: germany, nursing homes, serial killers

The truth will probably never be known

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Is it possible for doctors to be neutral on physician-assisted suicide?

Michael Cook | 28 Oct 2018 |

tags: assisted suicide, physician assisted suicide, usa

A large association of American doctors has adopted a position of 'engaged neutrality'

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Magna Carta for transhumanists

Michael Cook | 28 Oct 2018 |

tags: transhumanism

All sentient entities can rest easy

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Swiss doctors go head-to-head over liberal guidelines for assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 28 Oct 2018 |

tags: assisted suicide, switzerland, unbearable suffering

“Unbearable suffering” could be the new standard

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Retraction Watch launches a searchable database

Michael Cook | 28 Oct 2018 |

tags: research ethics, research misconduct, retractions

A Japanese anaesthetist, Yoshitaka Fujii, holds the record for most papers retracted – 169

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US Senator discovers that she is at least 1/1024 Native American

Michael Cook | 21 Oct 2018 |

tags: elizabeth warren, genetic testing

Victim of Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ gibe takes genetic test

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