Anyone in the bioethics business will know Jonathan Glover as one of the nicest and most insightful philosophers around, as well as one of the fathers of modern bioethics. Jonathan now has his own web-site www.jonathanglover.co.uk which is well worth a visit. The picture on the homepage shows that he shares my belief in the […]
Month: March 2010
Is there an Election Due?
So: Alan Johnson has announced that he’s going to stop people using mephedrone… no, wait: that’s not it… make mephedrone use as safe as possible… no, that’s not it either… prevent the price of mephedrone rising and thereby increasing the likelihood of petty crime… close, but not quite… make sure that people can get hold […]
Conference: Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement
The Wellcome Trust Programme ‘The Human Body: its scope limits and future’ will be holding a two day conference titled ‘Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement’ in Manchester from 9th to the 11th April 2010. […]
Concord in Ethics and Bioethics
Over at Pea Soup, Ralph Wedgwood makes an interesting claim: I suspect that on several issues that are the focus of fierce moral controversies today – such as homosexuality and the death penalty – there is significantly less disagreement among contemporary philosophers than in the population as a whole. Indeed, I tentatively suggest, the historical […]
Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele PGT Open Day – Updated
The Centre for Professional Ethics & the School of Law at Keele University would like to invite you to attend their postgraduate taught courses open day on the 31st of March – between 4:30 pm and 7:00 pm at the Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University. Update: Details of the event can be found here: […]
Ethical Issues in Infectious Disease Control Workshop 22nd of April – Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University.
The Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele like to announce a Wellcome Trust funded workshop to be held at Keele University on the 22nd of April focusing on the ethical issues raised by infectious disease control. […]
On the subject of Mephedrone…
I think that it’s worth pointing out that the way the media have handled mephedrone has been generally pathetic. This is not wholly a surprise, because the way the media handle any drugs story tends towards the pathetic. […]
Quick! Ban Something!
It goes without saying that the deaths of Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith, apparently after having taken the legal high mephedrone, is a matter of deep regret. But it’s also a matter of sad predictability that the news has been hotly followed by calls for mephedrone to be banned; speaking on Today this morning, Chris Grayling, […]
Science! Homeopathy! Quantum Stuff!
At last! A scientific rationale for homeopathy! This paper is a first step towards a full, quantum understanding of homeopathy. It is clear that quantum mechanics is the only way to understand the success of homeopathic medicine in a physical context. It is also immediately clear that doctors should avoid patients after treatment. Patients must […]
Resource: Bioethics in NewsFilm Online
By David Hunter This seems like a useful new resource. There is an archive :NewsFilm Online (NFO, www.nfo.ac.uk). This archive now hosts some 60,000 news clips produced by ITN and Reuters in collaboration with the British Universities Film & Video Council and EDINA went live in October 2008. Despite the fact that NFO includes footage […]