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.

Trump’s health department takes a pro-life turn

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2017 |

tags: beginning of life, conception, department of health and human services, donald trump

A new strategic plan defends life from conception to natural death

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‘Human dignity’ is not ‘useless’

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2017 |

tags: bioethics, human dignity

Even if bioethicist object, patients complain that they are not treated with dignity. So it must mean something

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If Trump moves on bioethics, what kind of commission should he create?

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2017 |

tags: bioethics commissions

There are at least two different schools of thought: consensus commissions and non-consensus commissions

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The emerging technology of ‘synthetic embryology’

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2017 |

tags: human embryos, organoids, stem cells

Scientists are facing whole new set of ethical issues

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Gene of the week: divorce

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2017 |

tags: divorce, gene of the week

If divorce is genetic, counselling has to change

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Will assisted suicide always provide a quick and gentle death?

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: assisted suicide, capital punishment

No, sorry, not always

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British man with motor neurone disease loses fight for assisted suicide in UK court

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: assisted suicide, uk

Challenge to Suicide Act 1961 fails

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Religions and embryos

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: human embryos, religion

From ensoulment to reincarnation

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Bioethics in Nobel for Literature

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: cloning, nobel prize for literature, organ donation

Kazuo Ishiguro discussed cloning and organ donation in his 2005 novel

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Sperm bank to add criminal check and thorough psych assessment to screening process

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: sperm donation

It's about time, some will say

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Cosmetic surgery clowning to be discouraged

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: cosmetic surgery

Sleazy marketing tactics are popular in a competitive field

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Children can write their own advance care directives in Victoria

Michael Cook | 7 Oct 2017 |

tags: advance directives, advanced care planning, australia, victoria

As long as they are competent, their requests will be binding

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Are drug addicts responsible or helpless victims of an illness?

Michael Cook | 30 Sep 2017 |

tags: drug addiction, massachusetts, usa

The Massachusetts Supreme Court could decide

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Medical staff punished after privacy breach in Pennsylvania hospital

Michael Cook | 30 Sep 2017 |

tags: pennsylvania, privacy, usa

Staff were sharing photos on their smartphones

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US Congress ponders assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 30 Sep 2017 |

tags: assisted suicide, us congress, usa

Opponents are trying to drum up support for a resolution

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