If you know what is going to happen in bioethics in the future here is the competition for you, courtesy of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics. […]
Month: March 2009
Failed Asylum Seekers and the NHS
The Court of Appeal has ruled today (Monday) that those who have not resided lawfully in the UK for at least a year are not entitled to receive free health service treatment. Lord Justice Ward said: “Failed asylum seekers ought not to be here. They should never have come here in the first place and […]
Does it Matter when Life Begins?
PZ Meyers recently blogged about his response to one of the perennial claims of pro-life advocates: that life begins at conception. Predictably, he accuses pro-lifers of misunderstanding the question, and he does this by denying that life begins at conception because life began billions of years ago: everything else is just a part of a […]
Is the World’s Smartest Man an Act Utilitarian?
Okay – since everyone else on teh t’interwebz seems to be blogging about Watchmen, I thought I might join in. Especially because, if I don’t, David will: I think he’s more of a geek than I. (Most people are.) So, yeah. Long, violent, extraordinarily faithful to the book except for the improved dénouement, I’d’ve shot […]
Book Review: Elizabeth Bryan, Singing the Life – The Story of a Family in the Shadow of Cancer
Elizabeth Bryan, Singing the Life – The Story of a Family in the Shadow of Cancer. London: Vermilion, 2007, ISBN 9780091917159, GBP12.99 hb Book review by Richard Ashcroft email: r.ashcroft@qmul.ac.uk […]
Book Review: Choices in Palliative Care: Issues in Health Care Delivery
Choices in Palliative Care: Issues in Health Care Delivery Blank, Arthur E.; O’Mahony, Sean; Selwyn, A. (Eds.) 2007, XVIII, 238 p. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70874-4 €54.95 Book Review by Simon Woods […]
Postgraduate studentships in Bioethics and Biolaw (MA/MSc/MPhil/PhD)
More than £300,000 funding is available for postgraduate studentships in the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) and Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) at The University of Manchester. […]
But Does it Cause Cancer?
It’s so confusing. One day the newspaper tells you that – oh, I don’t know – orange juice causes cancer, the next the radio tells you that it cures it. One news sources says one thing, another the opposite, all of them citing the same studies. How to cut through the thicket? Fret no more. […]
A Big Week for Little Cells
Stem cells have been in the news rather a lot lately. President Obama has, it’s currently being widely reported, lifted Dubya’s restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research, much to the chagrin of some, and the delight of others. (Interestingly enough, among the worriers we find a surprisingly large number of British commentators who point out […]
Terry Pratchett on Assisted Dying
The creator of Discworld writes to The Times: There may have to be […] legal requirements that should be satisfied, but they should not be such that they become a barrier to the patient’s wishes. […]