Tag: "applied ethics"

Club Bio-Med

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Editorial]

Are Designer Babies Our Future?

Keith Tidman overhears a prophetic dialogue about the pluses and minuses of genetically engineering children.
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Bioethics & Medical Ethics]

Eating Stupid Pigs

Marco Kaisth asks, could radical genetic engineering create ethical factory farms?
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Bioethics & Medical Ethics]

Informing People About Their Genetic Risks

Jan Deckers and Dominic Hall ask whether relatives of patients with a genetic disease should be told that they themselves are at an increased risk.
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Bioethics & Medical Ethics]

Onora O’Neill (1941-)

by Terence Green
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Philosophical Haiku]

Doctor-Patient Relationships

Paul Walker ponders the best type of relationship between a doctor and a patient.
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Bioethics & Medical Ethics]

Henrietta’s Story

Vincent Lotz asks who should have the decisive power over someone’s cells after their death: their family, or the medical community?
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Bioethics & Medical Ethics]

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder
[Issue 119 :: April/May 2017 :: Cartoon]

To Be Or Not To Be, What Is The Answer?

The following responses to Hamlet’s big question each win a random book.
[Issue 117 :: December 2016 / January 2017 :: Question of the Month]

Euthanasia Debate: Counterpoint (I)

Joachim Jung’s reply to Tim Chappell.
[Issue 40 :: March/April 2003 :: Debate]