I don’t think that anyone has mentioned the increasingly curious Suleman octuplet story yet on this blog. So I’ll just quickly point out that Nadya Suleman has – obviously – a website, on which she asks for comments and – erm – donations. If someone could tell me what to think about this in a sane and […]
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Population Control, Chinese Style?
Enough with one child per family, already – let the kids smoke themselves into population control… Apologies for having to link it: I can’t seem to get LiveLeak to embed. I fail at computer. (Thanks to Garen FD for the pointer.) […]
CFP: Mental Disorder
Friday 6th March 2009 University of Warwick This one-day workshop will be the second event of a new Multidisciplinary Research Network on The Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease, funded by the AHRC. The network is managed by Dr Havi Carel (UWE) and Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster). For more information on the network: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml Within […]
CFP: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ALSP 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ASSOCIATION FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (ALSP) 2009 Annual Conference ‘Ethics for the 21st Century’ July 2-4, 2009 University of Edinburgh – Department of Politics and IR, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/alsp2009/ Outline The last two decades have seen profound social and economic changes in all areas of our lives. To name but […]
Nominations Invited for President’s Council on Bioethics
Not really. Not yet. The President’s Council on Bioethics will exist until the end of September this year at the earliest: it may continue after that if Obama decides that it ought. However, even if the council as it stands becomes defunct, it’ll be replaced by something doing a very similar job – that much seems […]
What if Abortion were Illegal?
Not everything wrong is illegal; nor should it be. Adultery may be wrong, and eating foie gras may be problematic – but it doesn’t follow that eating foie gras with your mistress ought to be against the law. So what about abortion? Granted that some people think it wrong, what do they think the legal […]
Measles! Get your Measles!
Britain, some would have us believe, is one of the worst places in the world for measles. In 2006-7, there were 12000 cases in Europe, many of them in the UK, according to a study in The Lancet (subscription required) and reported by the Beeb. This has not a little to do with the MMR […]
Naked Scientists Performing Autopsies!
The headline get your attention? There’s recently been an appeal put out that more people should donate their organs – brains in particular – to science. In a similar sort of vein, it’s apparently National Pathology Week (I’ve booked my autopsy for Thursday morning: it’ll be ACE!), and there’s a series of podcasts to go with it. […]
Gordon Brown opposes something that noone wants anyway…
Gordon Brown was interviewed on the radio this morning by Cormack Murphy O’Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. A titanic clash of intellects it was not. Apparently Super Gord is against reforming the laws on assisted suicide: In a interview with Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, a guest editor on Today, Mr Brown was asked about calls […]
It’s oh-so Quiet…
As some of you may have heard, Wired magazine is suggesting that the age of the blog may already be over. And the level of activity here over the past couple of weeks may have lent credence to that supposition. Full service will be resumed soon – it just seems like Søren, David and I are […]