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.

Poland’s high court effectively bans abortion

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: abortion, poland

Court treats abortion as a kind of eugenics

---

‘Medical aid in dying’ saves money: Canadian report

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: assisted suicide, canada, euthanasia, healthcare policy

These savings should "in no way be interpreted" to suggest that assisted dying be used to reduce health-care costs.

---

IVF doctors up in arms over Trump’s SCOTUS pick

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: ivf, scotus

For the first time in its history, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has opposed a Supreme Court nominee

---

Let’s return to the basics of human experience, says bioethicist

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: autonomy, bioethics, communitarianism

Human beings are not unconnected atoms

---

What factors can undermine our autonomy?

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: agency, assisted suicide, autonomy, euthanasia

Addiction, brainwashing, trauma or fatigue, obviously. Any others?

---

US: foetal abduction to end with a lethal injection

Michael Cook | 24 Oct 2020 |

tags: abortion, capital punishment, fetal abduction

Lisa Montgomery to be the first woman executed in a federal prison in 67 years

---

Spain edges closer to legalizing euthanasia

Michael Cook | 17 Oct 2020 |

tags: euthanasia, spain

Bioethicists are critical

---

South Korea to loosen restrictions on abortion despite low birth rate

Michael Cook | 17 Oct 2020 |

tags: abortion, south korea

Old law deemed unconstitutional

---

A modern sultan boasts his virtual harem

Michael Cook | 17 Oct 2020 |

tags: sperm donation

Some women shun fertility clinics

---

Quick and faulty research a problem for journals in Covid-19 pandemic

Michael Cook | 17 Oct 2020 |

tags: coronavirus, research ethics

"No research team is exempt from the pressures and speed at which Covid-19 research is occurring”

---

CRISPR scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Michael Cook | 17 Oct 2020 |

tags: crispr, nobel prize for chemistry

What about the ethical implications?

---

More family secrets unveiled in Netherlands

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2020 |

tags: reproductive revolution, sperm donation, sperm donors

A Dutch gynaecologist sired at least 17 children by secretly donating his own sperm

---

Netherlands prepares for child euthanasia

Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2020 |

tags: child euthanasia, netherlands

There will only be 5 or 10 cases a year, says health minister

---

After months of Covid-19 scepticism, President Trump is hospitalized with the virus

Michael Cook | 4 Oct 2020 |

tags: coronavirus, donald trump

Should he have access to experimental medicines?

---

Assisted dying round-up

Michael Cook | 4 Oct 2020 |

tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide

New Zealand, Massachusetts, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Tasmania

Page 1 of 319 pages  1 2 3 >  Last ›