Tag: Ethics
Margaret Somerville: Withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition
Withdrawing artificial delivery of food and water to patients can be ethically complex
It can be unethical to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition and doing...
In debt for doctor’s far-reaching vision for the culture of life
It’s said that if you aren’t on social media you don’t exist. The frightening cultural amnesia bequeathed by this nostrum was brought home at...
Inverting medical ethics to suit politics
By Dr Bernadette Tobin
A thought experiment
Daniel Sulmasy, a Catholic medical doctor and philosopher who works at Georgetown University in Washington DC, once invited us...
Gene-editing human embryos ‘a train wreck’
Editing genes in human embryos and implanting them in a woman was not safe, says ethicist.
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