INTERVIEWS

Peter Singer interviewed about, well, everything

Michael Cook | 25 February 2017 | Comments

tags: interviews, peter singer

Excerpts from a great interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics

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Interview: Philip Nitschke on life in the Netherlands

Philip Nitschke | 28 November 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, interviews, netherlands, philip nitschke

Dutch views on "completed life" sync with his notion of rational suicide

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Diversity, disability and eugenics: an interview with Rob Sparrow

Xavier Symons | 11 August 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, eugenics, forced sterilization, genetic screening, interviews

In a provocative interview with BioEdge, influential bioethicist and philosopher Rob Sparrow discusses various current controversies in bioethics.

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Interview: Dissecting the age of ‘do harm’ medicine

Wesley J. Smith | 21 June 2016 | Comments

tags: bioethics, interviews

A leading voice in American bioethics peers into the future in his new book

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Bioethics and natural law: an interview with John Keown

John Keown and Xavier Symons | 08 March 2016 | Comments

tags: bioethics, ethics, interviews, natural law

An exclusive interview with John Keown, a senior research scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

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Interview: Carrie D. Wolinetz of the NIH on gene editing

Carrie D. Wolinetz and Xavier Symons | 23 February 2016 | Comments

tags: CRISPR, gene editing, interviews, NIH

In an exclusive interview with BioEdge, Dr. Carrie D. Wolinetz, Associate Director for Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health, discusses the ethical issues attendant to gene editing research.

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Interview: David S. Oderberg

David S. Oderberg | 15 December 2015 | Comments

tags: bioethics discourse, contemporary bioethics, interviews, natural law, new natural law

A highly critical look at contemporary bioethical discourse by a UK philosopher.

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Interview: Daniel Callahan on communitarian bioethics

Daniel Callahan and Xavier Symons | 28 October 2015 | Comments

tags: Communitarian bioethics, Daniel Callahan, interviews

Daniel Callahan is one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary bioethics. Recently he spoke with BioEdge about the state of the discipline.

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Interview: Dan Robinson on bioethics and utilitarianism

Dan Robinson and Xavier Symons | 11 September 2015 | Comments

tags: communitarianism, interviews, utilitarianism

Recently we interviewed Professor Daniel N. Robinson about his views on the foundations of bioethics.

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Interview: Julian Savulescu, editor of JME

Xavier Symons and Julian Savulescu | 26 August 2015 | Comments

tags: interviews, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu

The editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics discusses the fraught job of editing a leading journal.

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‘Foreigners do not understand us’

Raphael Cohen-Almagor | 01 August 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Belgium, euthanasia, interviews, Netherlands

The boundaries of euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands keep expanding, says a world expert.

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Interview: Daniel P. Sulmasy on informed consent

Xavier Symons and Daniel P. Sulmasy | 21 May 2015 | Comments

tags: autonomy, informed consent, interviews, Jehovah's Witness, virtue ethics

In an exclusive BioEdge interview, presidential advisor and renown bioethicist Daniel P. Sulmasy discusses the principle of informed consent.

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Nita Farahany: Neuroscience and the law

Xavier Symons | 02 May 2015 | Comments

tags: determinism, interviews, law, neurolaw, neuroscience, US

Renown academic and presidential advisor Nita Farahany recently spoke with BioEdge about neuroscience and the law.

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Kristján Kristjánsson on virtuous medical practice

Xavier Symons | 03 April 2015 | Comments

tags: interviews, medical students, principalism, professional ethics, virtue ethics

Philosopher Kristján Kristjánsson recently spoke to BioEdge about the importance of virtue in medicine.

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Summer school in bioethics in Manhattan

Michael Cook | 29 January 2015 | Comments

tags: bioethics, interviews

The Global Bioethics Initiative is offering a bioethics programme this summer.

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Carmel Shalev: the global trade in reproduction

Carmel Shalev | 20 September 2014 | Comments

tags: commercialization, interviews, surrogacy

An Israeli bioethicist is organising a conference on the rapidly growing market in surrogate mothers and babies.

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Interview: David Albert Jones on Brüstle stem cell ruling

Michael Cook | 25 October 2011 | Comments

tags: embryonic stem cells, interviews

Last week the European Court of Justice, in the case of Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace, ruled that research involving the destruction of embryos cannot be patented. This provoked an uproar among stem cell scientists. BioEdge interviewed Dr David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, about the judgement.

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Interview: Art Caplan on boycotting Chinese organ transplants

Michael Cook | 11 October 2011 | Comments

tags: China, interviews, organ donation

In response to the “barbarous practice of obtaining organs from executed prisoners” in China, the prominent US bioethicist Arthur Caplan, together with other experts, proposed an international boycott of organ transplants in China in a recent issue of The Lancet. Chinese doctors and scientists would be excluded from conferences, journals, and collaborative research. BioEdge asked Professor Caplan to elaborate on the situation in China.

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Roberto Abadie: the world of the professional guinea pig

Roberto Abadie | 14 September 2010 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, human rights, interviews

An interview with the author of The Professional Guinea Pig

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Interview: George J. Annas on Worst Case Bioethics

Michael Cook | 17 May 2010 | Comments

tags: bioethics, interviews

Can American health survive worst case scenarios?