I’d not realised it, but the latest iteration of the erstwhile Medical Innovation Bill – colloquially known as the Saatchi Bill – is up for debate in the Commons on Friday. This is it in its latest form: to all intents and purposes, though, it’s the same thing about which I’ve blogged before. In a […]
Category: Gratuitous Misuse of the Blog
Brocher Foundation – a review
By David Hunter For the last month I have been staying with 14 other academics on the shores of lake Geneva in Switzerland, free of charge thanks to the Brocher Foundation. I thought a review of the stay would potentially be of interest to others working in the field of medical ethics generally as it […]
My One Appearance in “Cosmo”…
… and they go and screw it up. A few weeks (months?) ago, I got a call from Cosmopolitan to ask if I’d talk about home-testing kits for genetics – stuff like what 23andMe offers. We talked, and I like to think that I said something useful… and promptly forgot all about it, until just now, […]
Testing, testing…
So, yeah. It’s been a bit quiet here, hasn’t it? There’s been a range of reasons. Mainly, it’s had to do with David and I both having to do (whisper it) real w*rk, and that’s got in the way. And then WordPress went a bit odd, which made it impossible to post anything. (Part of the […]
How to write a crap essay/paper in bioethics – or how to write bioethics to be published in medical journals…
By David Hunter I’ve been considering writing a reflective piece about the general quality of bioethics papers in medical journals, focusing on how the medium (the audience and the severe word limits) impacts on the message and its quality – possibly as a bit of a moan since I’ve not yet managed to get a […]
PhD funding in ethics and/ or law at Manchester School of Law
Details here; bioethics PhDs are available in the conventional form, or as a structured PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence. NB: the first deadlines are next week, so get your skates on. […]
A Little Something for the Holiday…
Here’s a little holiday challenge for you: come up with a bioethical controversy that some dark part of your soul wants to be real, if only because (a) you can get a paper out of it, and (b) it’ll cause heart attacks among the sort of people who make a point of listening to The […]
Symposium on Public Health and Political Philosophy
We are happy to announce a symposium on Public Health and Political Philosophy hosted by the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele and funded by the Wellcome Trust. The symposium will run from 10 – 5 on the 17th of June and is at Keele University. (Directions to Keele can be found here: http://www.keele-conference.com/21/directions ) […]
In ur videoz, appreciatin ur formz
After yesterday’s maundering on about Kant, here’s an example of how to keep philosophy in its rightful place. I like to think that the cat was thinking, “Holy tables? Really? I’m going to have to save you from yourself here, matey”. (props to HappyToast for the link.) […]
Musing about Kant (2)
It’s very easy, having encountered Kant for the first time, to think that his account of morality is much too cold and impersonal to be plausible – the sort of thing you might expect from a computer rather than a human. And though this criticism is rather simplistic – I think that Kant does have […]