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.

Oregon and Belgium release stats on assisted dying

Michael Cook | 2 Mar 2019 |

tags: assisted suicide, belgium, oregon

Details demand scrutiny

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Assisted dying can be “inhumane”, experts claim

Michael Cook | 2 Mar 2019 |

tags: anaesthesia, assisted suicide, capital punishment, euthanasia

Some patients have taken a week to die

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England to adopt ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation

Michael Cook | 2 Mar 2019 |

tags: organ donation, united kingdom

80% in favour of organ donation, but few donate

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Is ‘elderly’ an offensive and discriminatory term?

Michael Cook | 2 Mar 2019 |

tags: geriatric medicine

Neurologist claims it is anachronistic and offensive

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The other country where euthanasia for children is legal—Colombia

Michael Cook | 2 Mar 2019 |

tags: colombia, euthanasia, euthanasia for children

Through a series of court rulings and government regulations

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Should governments overrule parents who oppose transgender puberty-blockers? Yes, says bioethicist

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: children, transgenderism

Denying kids treatment could be a form of child abuse

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Young blood is probably snake oil, says FDA

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: enhancement, parabiosis, pseudoscience, senescence

It has 'no proven clinical benefits'

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Leading Irish hospital makes willingness to do abortions a condition of employment

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, ireland

Government is rolling out abortion services quickly

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Wife who travelled with husband to Dignitas will not be disinherited

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: assisted suicide, dignitas

High Court ruling will make it easier to access assisted suicide

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Should fat stigma be banned?

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: obesity, stigmatization

There is no rational defence for it, argues an American ethicist

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Bioethicists launch ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’

Michael Cook | 24 Feb 2019 |

tags: bioethics journals

Peter Singer is one of the founders

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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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