Vaccine Nationalism: Striking the balance
Written by Owen Schaefer and Julian Savulescu This is an updated cross-post of an article published in MediCine On 2 February 2021, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issues a broadside aga…
Read MoreCross Post: End-of-Life Care: People Should Have the Option of General Anaesthesia as They Die
Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu Dying patients who are in pain are usually given an analgesic, such as morphine, to ease their final hours and days. And if an analgesic isn’t enough, they can be given a sedative – somethin…
Read MoreMaking Universities (Even) More Unfair
Written by Neil Levy Unsurprisingly, I’m a big believer in universities and higher education. I think research, of all kinds, is important for a whole range of reasons and that being educated is very often conducive to a good life. But we s…
Read MoreCross Post: COVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated?
Written by Maximilian Kiener, University of Oxford Bored Panda, a website that publishes “lightweight and inoffensive topics”, reports an allegedly true case from the US of a woman who refused to have her child vaccinated. The woman, who is…
Read MoreGeneral Anaesthesia in End of Life Care – GAEL.
by Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics Our paper General anaesthesia in end-of-life care: extending the indications for anaesthesia beyond surgery has been published today in Anaesthesia. It is part of a series of work led by researcher Anton…
Read MorePress Release: Medical and ethical experts say ‘make general anaesthesia more widely available for dying patients’
General anaesthesia is widely used for surgery and diagnostic interventions, to ensure the patient is completely unconscious during these procedures. However, in a paper published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetist…
Read MoreCross-Post: The Moral Status of Human-Monkey Chimeras
Written by Julian Savulescu and Julian Koplin This article was first published on Pursuit. Read the original article. The 1968 classic Planet of the Apes tells the story of the Earth after a nuclear war destroys human civilisation. When th…
Read MoreCrosspost: Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu This work was supported by the UKRI/ AHRC funded UK Ethics Accelerator project, grant number AH/V013947/1. The UK Ethics Accelerator project can be found at https://ukpandemicethics.o…
Read MoreDaunte Wright: Policing and Accountability
Written by Jake Wojtowicz and Ben Davies On April 11th, Daunte Wright was pulled over by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Shortly afterwards, he was shot and killed by police officer Kim Potter. Police Chief Tim Gannon described this …
Read MoreNonconsensual Neurointerventions and Expressed Disrespect: a Dilemma
Written by Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas This essay is based on a co-authored paper recently published in Criminal Law and Philosophy Neurointerventions—interventions that modify brain states—are sometimes imposed on criminal offenders f…
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