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.

Several research groups create ‘artificial’ embryos

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2021 |

tags: iblastoids, stem cell research

iBlastoids which could bypass the need for stopping research at 14 days

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Spain becomes the fifth country to legalise euthanasia

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, spain

‘Today we are a more humane, just and freer country,’ says Prime Minister

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Portugal’s high court rejects euthanasia law

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2021 |

tags: euthanasia, portugal

A split court agreed that the bill lacked ‘the necessary rigour’ 

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Russia’s liberal surrogacy laws under threat

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2021 |

tags: russian, surrogacy

‘Russia is not an incubator,’ says deputy speaker of Duma

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Britain’s first birth control clinic opened 100 years ago

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2021 |

tags: eugenics, marie stopes, racism

But historians say that it is entangled with eugenics and racism

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Does plastic threaten the survival of the human race?

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: birth rates, infertility, plastics

A new book gathers the figures on growing infertility

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IVF dramatically increases twins around the world

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: ivf, population, twins

But twins are associated with higher death rates amongst babies

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Canada on verge of permitting euthanasia for mental illness

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: canada, euthanasia

Bill C-7 has nearly completed its journey through Parliament

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Another team of researchers call for the 14-day limit on embryo experimentation to be scrapped

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags:

Scientists and bioethicists have been chafing at the bit for years

American bioethicists call for a Covid-19 commission

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: covid-19

More than half a million people have died in the United States

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Older motherhood may not be such a great idea

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: ivf, older mothers

A Spanish woman has had her IVF children removed for the second time

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Call for commercial surrogacy to be legalized in Australia

Michael Cook | 14 Mar 2021 |

tags: surrogacy

There are no baby farms Down Under

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Poor things! Britain’s aristocrats left behind by assisted reproduction reforms

Michael Cook | 6 Mar 2021 |

tags: assisted reproduction, surrogacy

Succession is through bloodlines

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Euthanasia moves ahead in Australia

Michael Cook | 6 Mar 2021 |

tags: australia, euthanasia, tasmania

The Tasmanian legislature has nearly reached closure

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Shuffling off this mortal coil is not always pleasant

Michael Cook | 6 Mar 2021 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia

The drugs for euthanasia and assisted suicide do not always work as planned

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