Medical workers navigate their own moral and religious beliefs, professional standards, the law and the realities of clinical work – which can be especially complicated in abortion care.
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Pediatric epigenetic clocks have the potential to accurately assess biological age. However, possible applications in law enforcement and immigration raise ethical issues.
Doping is condemned in sports. But what about in the military? Should soldiers be allowed or even encouraged to take drugs that make them superior fighters and more likely to complete a mission?
A UK court has allowed a 14-year-old girl’s body to be frozen until doctors find a cure for the cancer that killed her. Is this latest example of cryogenics hope, hype or hell?
It’s uncertain whether we’ll ever be able to bring cryogenically frozen people back to life. Should we even try?
Force-feeding or starving to death? Emotive terms for an appalling choice. But this choice – whether to restrain and force-feed a young woman against her will or let her die of starvation – was recently…
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Associate Professor of Law (Health Law), Deakin University
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Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Policy Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University
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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
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
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Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics and Professor, UBC Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, California Polytechnic State University