BIOETHICS

Covid could be a Waterloo for the leading bioethical theory

Michael Cook | 24 January 2021 | Comments

tags: bioethics, principlism

Has the pandemic exposed the weaknesses of principlism?

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Does the autonomy principle work for substance abusers? 

Michael Cook | 18 November 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics

Relationships and empathy are far more important

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We need to move beyond vertebrate-centric bioethics, scholars argue

Michael Cook | 07 November 2020 | Comments

tags: animal rights, bioethics

Squid and honeybees should be recognised as members of our moral community

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Al Jonsen, bioethics pioneer, dies

Michael Cook | 07 November 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics

Advised Ted and Bobby Kennedy about abortion

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

Michael Cook | 24 October 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics, communitarianism

Human beings are not unconnected atoms

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Are you a burnt-out bioethicist? If so, you’ve got company

Michael Cook | 19 September 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics

Are you exhausted? Are you feeling mental distance from your work?

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Are we heading towards ‘bioethics nationalism’?

Michael Cook | 15 August 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics, coronavirus

Different bioethics for different countries?

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Should doctors manage the pandemic? No, says French philosopher

Michael Cook | 15 August 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics, iatrocracy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, has harsh words for health professionals

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‘Black bioethics’ emerging as a rebellion against conventional bioethics

Michael Cook | 08 August 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics, black bioethics

The field is splintering into many different factions

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Is bioethics an honest profession? The jury’s still out

Michael Cook | 31 May 2020 | Comments

tags: bioethics

Two practitioners hit back at scepticism

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Is bioethics fading away?

Michael Cook | 03 November 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics

Sociologists will inherit their mantle, says Cambridge sociologist

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Medical ethics: too important to leave to doctors

Michael Cook | 03 November 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics, paternalism

Let’s not return to the bad old days of paternalism

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‘Medical ethics’ is ethics by, for and about medics, not common morality, says bioethicist

Michael Cook | 15 September 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics

‘The ethics of medicine is internal to the profession’

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Doctors are ‘professionals’ and should leave religion out of it

Michael Cook | 15 September 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics

Medicine has its own rules

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800 bioethicists denounce US Govt treatment of migrant children

Michael Cook | 29 June 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics, migration

Facilities are deplorable and horrific, they claim

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Climate change analysis needs bioethicists

Michael Cook | 29 June 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics, climate change

The Hastings Center convenes a seminar on “the greatest moral challenge of our time”

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You’ve heard of the Wild East of bioethics? What about the Wild West?

Michael Cook | 10 February 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics, china

Chinese bioethicists defend their country's reputation

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Down from the ivory tower

Michael Cook | 16 December 2018 | Comments

tags: abortion, bioethics, brazil

Brazilian bioethicist complains that her life has been threatened

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Editor bans religious arguments from bioethics journal

Michael Cook | 30 September 2018 | Comments

tags: bioethics, religion

Only public-reason-based arguments cut the mustard

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UK bioethics thinktank endorses germline modification

Michael Cook | 21 July 2018 | Comments

tags: bioethics, genetic engineering, genetics, genomic essentialism, germline therapy, nuffield council on bioethics

“It is our view that genome editing is not morally unacceptable in itself,” says report author.

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