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Bioethics

A collection of 27 posts

The Case Against ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’

The Case Against ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’

Canada’s assisted-death law seems connected to the atomization of our society—as much a symptom of inhumanity as a cause.

Brian Bird

7 Apr 2023 · 16 min read

The Philadelphia Experiments

The Philadelphia Experiments

How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.

Allen M. Hornblum

10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read

An Australian Perspective on Abortion

An Australian Perspective on Abortion

The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.

Dara Macdonald

8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.

Kevin Mims

5 May 2022 · 26 min read

Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion

Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion

Frederick R. Prete

5 Oct 2021 · 10 min read

Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion

Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion

Michael Robillard

19 Sep 2021 · 5 min read

The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights

The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights

Diana Fleischman

15 Sep 2021 · 9 min read

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin

6 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 15 min read

The Hard Problems of Vegetarianism

The Hard Problems of Vegetarianism

Daniel Issing

29 Apr 2021 · 12 min read

The Transhumanist Case for Liberty

The Transhumanist Case for Liberty

Mark Goldblatt

8 Apr 2021 · 14 min read

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

Constantin Polychronakos

5 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres

Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres

Sean Welsh

16 Mar 2021 · 9 min read

Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta

Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta

Habib Rahman

15 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

Baz Edmeades

6 Sep 2020 · 9 min read