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.

China rushes into embryo selection

Michael Cook | 19 Aug 2017 |

tags: china, eugenics, pgd, preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Very little ethical push-back exists

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Can genetics refute white supremacist theories?

Michael Cook | 19 Aug 2017 |

tags: genetics, racism

Unfortunately, the answer seems to be No

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Dutch couple choose euthanasia together

Michael Cook | 19 Aug 2017 |

tags: couple euthanasia, euthanasia, netherlands

It's an increasingly common practice in the Netherlands, it seems

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Pope demands that Belgian Catholic hospitals stop euthanasia

Michael Cook | 19 Aug 2017 |

tags: belgium, euthanasia, pope francis, vatican

Warning shot across the bow of Catholic dissidents

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Iceland: nearly 100% of Down syndrome babies terminated

Michael Cook | 19 Aug 2017 |

tags: down syndrome, iceland, prenatal screening

"Heavy-handed genetic counseling" to blame, says leading local geneticist

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Has the venerable Belmont Report passed its use-by date?

Michael Cook | 12 Aug 2017 |

tags: belmont report, bioethics, principlism

Art Caplan calls for a complete overhaul

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A Quebec ‘mercy killing’ prompts a rethink on euthanasia law

Michael Cook | 12 Aug 2017 |

tags: canada, euthanasia, mercy killing

Calls for legalisation of advance directives for dementia patients

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German interest in racial theories foreshadowed in WWI

Michael Cook | 12 Aug 2017 |

tags: racial stereotypes, racial theories, world war i

The strange adventure of an Aboriginal Australian in a WWI POW camp

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A cool idea for an afterlife

Michael Cook | 12 Aug 2017 |

tags: cryopreservation, cryothanasia, euthanasia

Two bioethicists discuss the morality of 'cryothanasia'

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Human embryos modified to eliminate a single-gene disease

Michael Cook | 5 Aug 2017 |

tags: crispr, eugenics, gene-editing, human embryos

Is it time to begin talking about a revival of eugenics?

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Commercial surrogacy still thriving in India

Michael Cook | 5 Aug 2017 |

tags: commercial surrogacy, india, surrogacy

Even if the government has banned overseas clients

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New kid on the block: the bioethics of ageing

Michael Cook | 5 Aug 2017 |

tags: ageing, demography

A process which is "even more fundamental and ubiquitous than procreation"

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Latest end-of-life statistics from the Netherlands

Michael Cook | 5 Aug 2017 |

tags: euthanasia, netherlands

Nearly 1 death in 20 is due to euthanasia

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Declining sperm count could lead to ‘extinction’

Michael Cook | 29 Jul 2017 |

tags: human extinction, sperm count

Experts suspect that chemicals are to blame.

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First American success with editing human embryos

Michael Cook | 29 Jul 2017 |

tags: crispr, human embryos

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of Oregon Health and Science University, has successfully edited a gene for a genetic disease in scores of human embryos

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