Michael Cook
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Life without humans: What’s the ‘voluntary extinction movement’?
Euthanasia is usually viewed as a personal experience. But there are movements and philosophers who believe that it would be ...
Should doctors heed ‘do not resuscitate’ tattoos?
Doctors at a Florida hospital’s emergency department were startled in May [2017] to discover the words “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” tattooed on an ...
‘Stem cell tourism’ pushing patients towards unproven procedures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Stem cell scientists appear ...
Bioethics: An attack on academic freedom?
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. Some bioethicists ...
Researchers eager to create parentless embryos with stem cells
An international fertility conference early next year will teach participants how to create embryos with stem cells. The organisers for ...
Bioethics and corruption: What’s the link?
Corruption is not a chapter heading in most bioethics textbooks. But a passionate article in a recent issue of the ...
