Lecture and Book Launch: Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children – From Disagreement to Dissensus
Watch the lecture by Professors Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu at the book launch for ‘Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children’, which took place on 4 October at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford…
Read MoreAgainst Conscientious Objection In Health Care: A Counterdeclaration And Reply To Oderberg
Alberto Giubilini (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford) and Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) Conscientious objection in health care – that is, healthcare practitioners o…
Read MoreEvil Online and the Moral Fog
The following is based on a brief presentation at the launch of Evil Online, by Dean Cocking and Jeroen van den Hoven and published by Wiley-Blackwell, in Bendigo, Australia, on 20 September 2018. It was an honour and a pleasure to be invit…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Consciousness Hunting
By Mackenzie Graham Crosspost from Nautilus. Click here to read the full article When Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario, asked Scott Routley to imagine playing a game of tennis, any acknowledgement would hav…
Read MoreEthics Goes on Holiday
By Stephen Rainey Summer time, and the living is ethically perplexing. Hordes of holidaymakers, the shimmering sea, busy beaches, and one sun over it all. How can the eager ethicist assess how to make the most of a fortnight away? We all kn…
Read MoreFetal Reduction in a Multiple Pregnancy: the Case of Identical Twins
Written by Elizabeth Crisp and Roger Crisp When a woman aborts a single fetus, that abortion can be a morally troubling experience for her. What about a situation in which a woman is pregnant with more than one fetus, perhaps identical twin…
Read MoreVictoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Law isn’t on a Slippery Slope
By David Copolov and Julian Savulescu This week the Australian Senate will debate a private members’ bill that will consider whether to overturn the 21-year-old Euthanasia Laws Act that nullified the ability of Australian self-governing te…
Read MoreTerrorist Beheadings and Other Forms of Disease Transmission
By Hazem Zohny Most of us are disturbed by people who take hostages and then cut their heads off while filming it. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh – the remaining members of the British Isis cell nicknamed “the Beatles” – are accused …
Read MoreUK Supreme Court Decision Means Patients No Longer Forced to Live
By Mackenzie Graham On July 30, The UK’s Supreme Court ruled that there is no requirement to obtain court approval before withdrawing clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH), when there is agreement between physicians and the fam…
Read MoreThe Dangers Of Deferring To Doctors
By Charles Foster (Image: tctmd.com) There is a dizzying circularity in much medical law. Judges make legal decisions based on the judgments of rightly directed clinicians, and rightly directed clinicians make their judgments based on what …
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