How wrong may we be?
By Nicholas ShackelConsider these propositions: Mandatory licensing of professional services increases the prices of those services. Overall, the standard of living is higher today than it was 30 years ago Rent control leads to housing shor…
Read MoreThe Cost of Non-Cash Incentives for Organs
The Times newspaper featured an editorial proposing changes in the organ procurement system last week by Sally Satel, a scholar from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. I thought the first few lines were especially…
Read MoreA costly separation between withdrawing and withholding treatment
by Dominic Wilkinson Television child star Gary Coleman died recently following a severe brain haemorrhage. He was taken to an intensive care unit, but the next day was taken off life support because of the severity of his brain injury. Dec…
Read MoreAgainst Equality
by Julian Savulescu Equality is an ideal born of the vice of envy, one of the seven deadly sins. But equality has no intrinsic value and panders to our vicious nature to be envious of others. Levelling down is absurd. And why level up if we…
Read MoreCritical Care ethics grand round
by Dominic Wilkinson Today I gave a talk at the John Radcliffe Medical Grand Round on Advance Directives and treatment withdrawal decisions in intensive care – based on a case I was involved in last year. A middle-aged patient present…
Read MoreDrugs in sport debate: Proposer’s update
by Julian Savulescu So far, there has been no debate. I agree entirely with nearly all John William’s points. The topic is “Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Allowed in Sport.” It is not “All Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Allowe…
Read MoreReligion, Tolerance and Intolerance Conference resources available online
The AHRC-Funded 'Science and Religious Conflict' Project team here at Oxford (www.src.ox.ac.uk) is pleased to announce that resources from our recent conference on 'Religion, Tolerance and Intolerance', held at Oxford&…
Read MoreDrugs in sport debate: Proposer’s response to comments
by Julian Savulescu two early comments on the online debate website raise concerns about allowing performance enhancing drugs in sport:
Read MoreWhether to die, or when to die? The distinction between assisted suicide and ‘aid in dying’
Assisted suicide is illegal in the state of Connecticut. But two doctors have sought to circumvent the law by requesting that the administration of lethal agents to terminally ill patients be classed as “aid in dying” rather than assisted s…
Read MoreOxford Debates — Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed in Sport — Moderator’s Opening Statement
Oxford Online Debates by Roger Crisp Taking drugs to improve one’s sporting performance seems, on the face of it, a paradigmatic example of a wrong action. It combines two activities usually considered shameful: the use of banned substances…
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