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.

Chinese actress dumped by Prada after she dumped her two surrogate babies

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: china, surrogacy

Zheng Shuang reviled on social media

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How many embryos are frozen in China’s IVF clinics?

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: china, frozen embryos

Another example of the insoluble dilemma

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Why do euthanasia rates vary across the Netherlands?

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, netherlands

Some regions have 5 times as many euthanasia deaths as the lowest regions

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Radical right-to-die activists arrested in France

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

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Members of the Ultime Liberté association were allegedly trafficking in the banned suicide drug pentobarbital.

Family splits over fate of unresponsive man in England 

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: catholic church, end of life care, england

Catholic Church infuriated over decision to allow patient to starve to death

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A new Swiss group caters for Dutch who are not eligible for euthanasia

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, netherlands, philip nitschke, switzerland

Australian activist Dr Philip Nitschke at work

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Australians launch class action suit against IVF clinic over faulty embryo test

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: australia, ivf

They are seeking compensation for economic loss and pain and suffering

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Classics scholar slams transhumanism in new book

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

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The stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are immeasurably high, says Susan Levin

After all, what is really wrong with apotemnophilia?

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

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New prosthetics could even improve function

Do amazement, wonder, and awe have a place in bioethics?

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

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An Australian bioethicist says Yes

Covid could be a Waterloo for the leading bioethical theory

Michael Cook | 24 Jan 2021 |

tags: bioethics, principlism

Has the pandemic exposed the weaknesses of principlism?

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If fake medical news is dangerous, its authors should be jailed, says Polish lawyer

Michael Cook | 16 Jan 2021 |

tags: covid-19, fake news

If Holocaust denial is a crime, why not vaccine denial?

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Doctors need to study the lessons of the Holocaust, says ethics journal

Michael Cook | 16 Jan 2021 |

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A sound medical education must recall Nazi atrocities

London newspaper reveals ‘shocking evidence’ about transgender treatments

Michael Cook | 16 Jan 2021 |

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The use of puberty blockers is basically ‘a live experiment’ on vulnerable children, says one psychiatrist

Examining the thorny moral problem of foetal reduction

Michael Cook | 16 Jan 2021 |

tags: abortion, foetal reduction

Our moral instincts don’t lead to an easy answer

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