Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
- Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
Pelo menos oito dos primeiros autoexperimentadores morreram em decorrência de suas pesquisas.
A least eight early self-experimenters died from their research.
Adults today may have grown up dreaming they would live to see working jet packs and robot assistants but few people imagined it would be possible to create life without reproductive cells.
A Google employee’s claims that one of its chatbots is sentient has caused a stir across the world.
Technology businesses are already making computers with human matter.
Western pharmaceutical companies can’t stop supplying essential medicines to Russia, but they can cease other business.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt is concerned that the U-turn on vaccine mandates for NHS staff will make it harder to implement them in the future.
The arrival of the highly infectious Omicron variant has changed the COVID landscape in Australia. We asked 5 experts whether it’s time to rethink vaccine mandates for dining, fitness and events.
Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers may have made sense earlier in the pandemic. But not now.
We have moved beyond burning witches and lynching wrong-doers. So we should also stop shaming unvaccinated people. There are better ways to change behaviour.
Austria and Greece have introduced vaccine mandates, and Germany is considering it.
Austria has imposed a lockdown for the unvaccinated. Russia is considering the same measure.
Ethics should be the first consideration on vaccine policy – ahead of purely medical advice and politics. But the considerations are many and they are complex.
There are two ways to look at it: self-interest versus altruism.
4 out of 5 experts said yes.
Children should only be excluded from school if they are unwell.
The UK government is set to make it compulsory for all staff working in care homes in England to get the COVID vaccine. Two ethicists discuss the pros and cons.
Many developed countries have approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children as young as 12, even though they are a low-risk group.
Vaccine passports are small sacrifice to make for the greater good.
The case for letting people go gentle into that good night.
‘Chimera’ creatures with human organs could be medically useful – but can we really treat them like other animals?
As a society, we have to choose between liberty, equality and mortality. We can’t have all three.
Pausing COVID-19 vaccine rollouts can backfire. There are better ways to manage safety issues while they’re being investigated.
A growing list of countries is recommending that the AstraZeneca vaccine only be use in those younger than 65.
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