Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections for abortion in the country that were the result of the 1973 ...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/ethical-progress-on-abortion-care.html

  Canada’s parliament is reviewing its MAiD (medical assistance in dying) legislation. This is because there were some issues left to be addressed in the future when the country initial decr...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/argumenta-ad-passiones-canada-debates.html

From Developing World Bioethics As I write this on October 10, 2020 World Mental Health Day is upon us once again. The global picture of the suffering that mental health problems visit upon hu...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/access-to-mental-health-care-profound.html

From Bioethics It was just a matter of time after the successful creation of pig and cow embryos grown with human cells that some researcher somewhere would think it might be worth trying to f...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/from-chimera-research-frontiers-ethics.html

Cross posted from JME blog.   By Jocelyn Downie and Udo Schuklenk In its 2015 landmark Carter  decision, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that the blanket criminalisation of medical assistan...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/disability-mental-illness-and-medical.html

Academic researchers, naturally, are keen to contribute productively to the biomedical as well as social challenges caused by the current outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. Some of us do this by talking to ...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/on-role-of-academic-journals-during.html

There is a lot of talk these days about the predicted coming wave of COVID19 patients needing ICU beds and ventilators in particular, and the inevitable need to prioritise in terms of access. Bas...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid19-and-ethics-of-hospital-triage.html

The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a series of papers marking the journal's 150th ann...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/nature-authors-oddball-piece-on.html

Psychiatrists associated with elite institutions in the global north teamed up with counterparts in Ghana with a view to determining what impact the use of gold standard of care drugs plus �...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/undertaking-ethical-psychiatric.html

I had the great fortune of attending the World Congress of Bioethics in December 2018 in Bengaluru, India. Besides my participation in two panels, I also hosted – jointly with Brian Collins, ou...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-we-operate-review-process-at.html

Quite possibly the below table will be displayed in odd ways on your screen.  Usual CoI blurb applies. I co-edit two of the journals in this list. List up-dated August 2019. Any mistakes are m...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/2019-google-metrics-for-bioethics.html

I mentioned in a Bioethics editorial a while ago that new frontiers are opening in the assisted dying debate. As an increasing number of jurisdictions decriminalize assisted dying in some sha...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/certainty-is-not-defensible-standard.html

A trio of authors has, during a 12 months period, submitted - by their own account - 20 manuscripts to academic journals they broadly identify as being in disciplines or fields of study associate...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/sokal-on-steroids-why-hoax-papers.html

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has left the World Medical Association (WMA) because of ethics failings of its new President, Dr Leonid Eidelman. Apparently Eidelman's inaugural speech was...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/medical-ethics-violations-canadian.html

Quite possibly the below table will be displayed in odd ways on your screen.  Usual CoI blurb applies. I co-edit two of the journals in this list. List up-dated August 2018. Any mistakes are m...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/2018-google-scholar-metrics-for.html

Here's a tale of what goes wrong when airlines are so busy saving money on staff that they forget about their secondary function, namely carrying passengers in a timely fashion from A to B. The...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/trying-to-travel-on-american-airlines.html

Here's my current Editorial in Bioethics When health‐related tragedy befalls newborns, bioethical culture warriors are never far behind. The sad case of Alfie Evans1 seemingly opened up ren...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/05/bioethics-culture-wars-2018-edition.html

I have been pretty quiet on the blogging frontiers during the last few months. I have been juggling various manuscripts, including a book manuscript, as well as teaching, so basically I was too t...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/back-to-blogging-stuff-is-happening.html

Here's a re-post of my Editorial in the current issue of Developing World Bioethics . I will update toward the end of the Editorial relevant information about the upcoming IAB World Congress in ...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-can-we-ensure-that-global-south.html

Exciting changes are coming to Bioethics . Our publisher has, essentially, removed the page limitations on our budget. That provides us, of course, with growth opportunities. We have decided, in...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/bioethics-expanding-scope.html

So, the three largest German car manufacturers are for obvious and for good reasons targets of everyone's scorn these days. VW in particular is known to have manipulated its diesel engine equ...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/vw-mercedes-bmw-and-those-experiments.html

Here's my latest Editorial from the February issue of Bioethics It has been known among HIV/AIDS specialists for many years that infected people are for all practical intent and purposes unab...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-trouble-with-public-health-hivaids_21.html

There has been a legitimate debate going on for many years about the question of how we can ensure that colleagues in the global south can both benefit from bioethics journals such as this, as w...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-can-we-ensure-that-global-south.html

I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journals on google scholar to see how they fare in terms of citations o...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/2017-bioethics-journals-h5-h5-median.html

Here's a piece I have put together jointly with Xavier Symons for The Conversation . Euthanasia debates often focus on people experiencing unbearable physiological or psychological suffering...

http://ethxblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/viewpoints-should-euthanasia-be.html