Banning conversion therapies
The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has signed a Bill that will ban ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapies in that State. These are interventions that aim at ‘curing’ homosexuality or at least,...
View ArticleStalking Cat, tiger body modification, and the limits of consent
The American man who held the Guinness World Record for the most permanent transformations to look like an animal was recently found dead in his Nevada home. The man, known by his Native American name...
View ArticleLegally Competent, But Too Young To Choose To Be Sterilized?
In the UK, female sterilisation is available on the NHS. However, as the NHS choices website points out: Surgeons are more willing to perform sterilisation when women are over 30 years old and have had...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Compulsory Chemical Castration: Is Non-Consensual Treatment...
By Jonathan Pugh Tory Grant, the justice minister for New South Wales (NSW) in Australia, has announced the establishment of a task force to investigate the potential for the increased use of...
View ArticleThe Chinese pleasure room: ethics of technologically mediated interaction
The author of the webcomic Left Over Soup proposed a sexual equivalent (or parody?) of Searle’s Chinese Room argument, posing some interesting questions about what it means to have sex, consent and...
View ArticleMutilation or Enhancement? What is Morally at Stake in Body Alterations
By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) Those who follow my work will know that I have published a number of papers on the ethics of medically unnecessary genital cutting practices affecting children of...
View ArticleConsent Without Alternatives
Written by Ben Davies and Joshua Parker “COVID-19: Do not resuscitate orders might have been put in place without consent, watchdog says”. This recent headline followed an investigation by the Care...
View ArticleNew Publication: ‘Overriding Adolescent Refusals of Treatment’
Written by Anthony Skelton, Lisa Forsberg, and Isra Black Consider the following two cases: Cynthia’s blood transfusion. Cynthia is 16 years of age. She is hit by a car on her way to school. She is...
View ArticleBanning conversion therapies
The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has signed a Bill that will ban ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapies in that State. These are interventions that aim at ‘curing’ homosexuality or at least,...
View ArticleStalking Cat, tiger body modification, and the limits of consent
The American man who held the Guinness World Record for the most permanent transformations to look like an animal was recently found dead in his Nevada home. The man, known by his Native American name...
View ArticleLegally Competent, But Too Young To Choose To Be Sterilized?
In the UK, female sterilisation is available on the NHS. However, as the NHS choices website points out: Surgeons are more willing to perform sterilisation when women are over 30 years old and have had...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Compulsory Chemical Castration: Is Non-Consensual Treatment...
By Jonathan Pugh Tory Grant, the justice minister for New South Wales (NSW) in Australia, has announced the establishment of a task force to investigate the potential for the increased use of...
View ArticleThe Chinese pleasure room: ethics of technologically mediated interaction
The author of the webcomic Left Over Soup proposed a sexual equivalent (or parody?) of Searle’s Chinese Room argument, posing some interesting questions about what it means to have sex, consent and...
View ArticleMutilation or Enhancement? What is Morally at Stake in Body Alterations
By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) Those who follow my work will know that I have published a number of papers on the ethics of medically unnecessary genital cutting practices affecting children of...
View ArticleConsent Without Alternatives
Written by Ben Davies and Joshua Parker “COVID-19: Do not resuscitate orders might have been put in place without consent, watchdog says”. This recent headline followed an investigation by the Care...
View ArticleNew Publication: ‘Overriding Adolescent Refusals of Treatment’
Written by Anthony Skelton, Lisa Forsberg, and Isra Black Consider the following two cases: Cynthia’s blood transfusion. Cynthia is 16 years of age. She is hit by a car on her way to school. She is...
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