A Blog on Bioethics

Why would you read all the coverage of the National Academies Gene-Drives report when you could actually read the report itself ? My thought...

Click on the title to link to "Sometimes It Snows In April," my favorite Prince song. A bioethics song. Lovely.

If you're at all concerned with the possibility that the Supreme Court may shortly deprive tens of thousands of people of their (recentl...

Here's a debate on Physician Assisted Suicide at higher than the normal level of discourse. Enjoy!

I just got my copy of the hefty new six-volume edition of the  Encyclopedia of Bioethics . The Editor-in-Chief, Bruce Jennings, and two of t...

A while ago I shared with you this wonderful cartoon from Comic Nurse , alias MK Czerwiec. Now let me share with you this symposium, Out o...

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut Legislature has no plans to bring an Oregon-style bill for Aid-in-Dying (aka physician-assis...

Please, please go read this  wonderful and moving and honest cartoon about, among other things, why we don't do end-of-life planning, by...