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.

Coronavirus: vaccine shortcuts

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2020 |

tags: clinical trials, coronavirus

How about animal trials?

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Coronavirus: what happened to America’s bioethics commission?

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2020 |

tags: bioethics commissions, coronavirus

Where is Trump getting his advice?

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Coronavirus: people on cruise ships should be treated humanely

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2020 |

tags: coronavirus, stigmatization

On board they get sicker; on shore they are stigmatized

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We are not making this up

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2020 |

tags: gay parenting, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

A dispatch from the front lines of the Reproductive Revolution in Florida

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Survey of British doctors fails to change policy on assisted dying

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: assised dying, assisted suicide, uk

Five years before the next review

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Is China still harvesting organs from prisoners?  

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: china, coronovirus, transplant ethics

If not, where do the organ donors come from?

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Australian physicians reject need for inquiry into transgender treatment

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags:

There’s not much evidence but there’s no need to know much more

The limits of doctor-patient confidentiality tested in the UK

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: confidentiality, huntington's disease

Should children be informed if a parent has Huntington’s Disease?

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American women prisoners shackled during childbirth

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: prison ethics

Healthcare providers routinely report pregnant patients being shackled despite state prohibitions.

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Scientists lament Trump Administration’s ban on foetal tissue research

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: fetal tissue research

Others say that numerous non-controversial alternatives exist

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Will loneliness become a major health problem as countries age?

Michael Cook | 7 Mar 2020 |

tags: ageing population, loneliness, social isolation

It’s associated with early death, dementia, and heart disease

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Germany’s high court endorses right to assisted suicide

Michael Cook | 29 Feb 2020 |

tags: assisted suicide, germany

Commercial entities will provide assistance

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Involve the kids in euthanasia, advises Canadian doctor

Michael Cook | 29 Feb 2020 |

tags: children, euthanasia, maid

It helps to normalise MAiD

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South African doctors sterilised women without consent

Michael Cook | 29 Feb 2020 |

tags: forced sterilization, informed consent, south africa

Many women did not give informed consent

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Australia’s window onto exclusion of people with Down syndrome

Michael Cook | 29 Feb 2020 |

tags: disability, down syndrome

Mother recalls her tears when she heard the news

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