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.

‘Black bioethics’ emerging as a rebellion against conventional bioethics

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags: bioethics, black bioethics

The field is splintering into many different factions

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More evidence of correlation between transgender and autism in UK study

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags: surrogacy

Transgender adults are six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic

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Disabled girl at centre of surrogacy case dies

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags:

Defying predictions, she had a happy life

Disability rights groups protest death of man in Texas hospital

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags:

What about the equal dignity of the disabled?

With Covid-19, the world needs more ‘infodemiologists’

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags: fake news, infodemioogy

Combatting a crisis in medical information on the internet

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Trump’s foetal tissue review panel is ‘stacked’, say opponents

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags: fetal tissue research

Ten out of 15 oppose abortion

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There is a bright side. If you catch Covid-19, you’ve missed out on bubonic plague

Michael Cook | 8 Aug 2020 |

tags: coronavirus

For a real epidemic, read ‘The Betrothed’

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International surrogacy goes pear-shaped

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: covid-19, surrogacy

A thousand babies -- at least -- are stranded in Russia with their surrogate mothers

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Belgium’s euthanasia law under fire in European Court of Human Rights  

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: belgium, euthanasia

The case of Godelieva de Troyer shows the entrenched conflict of interest in Belgian euthanasia

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Of bikinis and vascular surgeons

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: cancel culture, professionalism

What is unprofessional conduct?

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North Carolina has a bit part in the dark history of genocide 

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: eugenics, north carolina

Bertween 1929 and 1974, the state’s eugenics program sterilized close to 7,600 men and woman

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Should governments sweeten the vaccine pill with incentives?   

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: coronavirus

Pay people to be vaccinated, says Julian Savulescu

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Did Nobel laureate Robert Edwards get his gong for enabling eugenics?

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: eugenics, robert edwards

What are the 'cancel culture' activists?

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Covid-19 briefs

Michael Cook | 2 Aug 2020 |

tags: euthanasia, sperm donors, super-spreaders

The euthanasia pandemic. Super-spreaders. Sperm donors in Israel.

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China accused of coercive population control over Uyghur Muslims

Michael Cook | 26 Jul 2020 |

tags: china, population control, uyghurs

US Secretary of State calls it “shocking” and “disturbing”

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