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.

Netherlands euthanasia 1: the fundamentalists

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, netherlands

Police arrest a man for supplying suicide drugs over the internet

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Netherlands euthanasia 2: the public prosecutor objects

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

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Turf war over regulation of doctors who help people die

Ireland sidesteps ‘assisted dying’ debate – for now

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, ireland

An MP’s bill has been dismissed on technical grounds

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Kodokushi: Japan’s problem with the old and isolated

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

tags: finland, gender dysphoria

The ethics of pressuring the elderly to have wearable devices

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Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatment

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

tags: gender dysphoria

Experts are sceptical about the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones

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A cyborg future may come earlier than we think

Michael Cook | 25 Jul 2021 |

tags: cyborgs

Along with serious ethical issues

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Another solution for dementia: ‘advance directive implants’

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: advance directives

Modelled on Norplant contraceptive implants

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WHO gives in-principle endorsement to human genome editing

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: human genome editing

However, it needs strict regulation

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Right-to-die in Scotland: People in glass houses, etc

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: eugenics, euthanasia, scotland

The founder of Dignity in Dying was an unabashed eugenicist

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Male mice give birth in bizarre Chinese experiment

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

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A surgical solution to transwomen gestating children is unlikely to catch on

Secular bioethics threatens human dignity, says US bioethicist

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: bioethics, theology

What about the millions of people with dementia?

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Gift vouchers for egg freezing

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: commodification

What better present for over-30s?

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Data from popular Down syndrome test could be used by China’s military

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: china, genomics

US government regards it as a security risk

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Eunuchs and bioethics: a malicious act with intent in Brisbane

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

tags: castration, mutilation

A DIY castration service

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New film examines ethical complexity of surrogacy

Michael Cook | 17 Jul 2021 |

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What if the baby has Down syndrome?

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