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Event: Double St Cross Special Ethics Seminar – Thursday 4 June 2015
On Thursday 4th June the Double St Cross Special Ethics Seminar took place. Presenting were Dr Joshua Shepherd and Dr Mimi Zou. Please see bellow for abstracts and links to the podcasts of the talks.
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Guest Post: Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?
Written by Dr Lynn Gillam Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society at University of Melbourne This article has been cross posted from The Conversation On Human Experiments – The Nazi and Japanese experiments during World War…
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Doping in team sports: You’re doing it wrong
Written By Dr Christopher Gyngell The 7th of February 2013 was described as the “darkest day in Australian sport”[1]. On this date the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) released results from a 12 month investigation detailing the extensive use of performance enhancing and illicit drugs in professional sport.
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Dogs on drugs
That people in all cultures around the world use plant drugs to heal, intoxicate, or enhance themselves is well known. What is less well known – at least to me – is that many cultures give drugs to their dogs to improve hunting success. A new paper in Journal of Ethnopharmacology by B.D. Bennett and…
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Guest Post: What’s wrong with obesity (and addiction)?
Written by Anke Snoek Macquarie University Many of us experience failure of self-control once in a while. These failures are often harmless, and may involve alcohol or food. Because we have experiences with these failures of self-control, we think that something similar is going on in cases of addiction or when people who can’t control…
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Announcement: The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog.
The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog. The Ethical War Blog will publish short and timely opinion articles on war-related topics in the news, written by specialists in the field, in an accessible and digestible format. The blog launches with five articles, with new content to…
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Three Ethical Ways to Increase Organ Donation in Australia
Authors: William Isdale & Julian Savulescu An edited version of this post was published by The Conversation Last week the Federal Government announced that there would be a review of Australia’s tissue and organ transplantation systems. The impetus for the review appears to be continually disappointing donation rates, despite the adoption of a national reform agenda in…
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Anorexia Nervosa and Deep Brain Stimulation: Philosophical Analysis of Potential Mechanisms
By Hannah Maslen, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu According to the NHS, the number of hospital admissions across the UK for teenagers with eating disorders has nearly doubled in the last three years. In a previous post, we discussed some ethical issues relating to the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat anorexia…
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Guest Post: Why isn’t the world going vegan?
Written by Catia Faria Universitat Pompeu Fabra Last month, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, one of the world’s most influential organizations in its field, published an updated version of a paper concluding that animal-free diets are absolutely healthy (Cullum-Dugan & Pawlak 2015). The article presents the official position of the Academy on this topic,…
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Catholic Identity and Strong Dissent—How Compatible?
Written by Professor Tony Coady University of Melbourne In a previous Uehiro blog[1] I offered a number of fairly radical criticisms of church disciplinary practices, and of several prevailing “official” teachings of the Church, such as on artificial contraception, abortion and much else in the area of sexual and reproductive ethics. Subsequently, several people put…