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.

Australian doctors in firing line in stoush over asylum-seekers

Michael Cook | 17 Feb 2019 |

tags: australia, refugees

New law gives medicos a pivotal role

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Controversy dogs ‘assisted dying’ poll of UK doctors

Michael Cook | 16 Feb 2019 |

tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, euthanasia, royal college of physicians

Allegations that the Royal College of Physicians has been hijacked

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Singer and Savulescu back germline editing

Michael Cook | 16 Feb 2019 |

tags: gene editing, germline modification, germline therapy

He Jiankui’s fundamental ethical misstep was exposing children to risk, not gene editing

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Embryo profiling could be a short-cut to ‘designer babies’

Michael Cook | 16 Feb 2019 |

tags: designer babies, embryo profiling

Technically feasible but ‘repugnant’, says one geneticist

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Latest revelations about sperm donation secrets

Michael Cook | 16 Feb 2019 |

tags: sperm donation

From The Netherlands, Israel and the US

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Consent not a defence, court tells body modification artist

Michael Cook | 16 Feb 2019 |

tags: body modification, informed consent

Tongue-splitting is not ‘reasonable’

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34 elderly are dead. Why haven’t you read about it?

Michael Cook | 15 Feb 2019 |

tags: angels of mercy, serial killers

What may turn out to be one of the biggest crimes in US history is being ignored

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‘Ethics dumping’ taints organ transplant research

Michael Cook | 10 Feb 2019 |

tags: china, informed consent, transplant ethics

Expert demands that 400 papers be retracted

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You’ve heard of the Wild East of bioethics? What about the Wild West?

Michael Cook | 10 Feb 2019 |

tags: bioethics, china

Chinese bioethicists defend their country's reputation

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Countdown: one year to a complete cure for cancer

Michael Cook | 10 Feb 2019 |

tags: science reporting

Israeli scientists claim that a cheap no-side-effects cure will be available soon

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Indian man sues parents for giving birth to him

Michael Cook | 10 Feb 2019 |

tags: david benatar, extinction, voluntary childlessness

Voluntary childlessness movement at work

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from BioEdge

Michael Cook | 24 Dec 2018 |

tags: christmas

We'll be on holidays until January. All the best for a successful 2019!

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Canadian report discusses expanding eligibility for euthanasia

Michael Cook | 16 Dec 2018 |

tags: canada, euthanasia

After only 2½ years, the pressure is on to amend the law

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First baby born from uterus of a deceased donor

Michael Cook | 16 Dec 2018 |

tags: brazil, uterus transplant

Brazilian case opens up possibilities for fertility treatment

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Peter Singer defends academic freedom

Michael Cook | 16 Dec 2018 |

tags: academic freedom, peter singer

Speaks up in favour of controversial young Cambridge academic

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