Articles

Coerced Abortion – The Neglected Face of Reproductive Coercion

Dr Greg Pike has published an article in The New Bioethics on ‘Coerced Abortion – The Neglected Face of Reproductive Coercion.’ MORE

Agency, Pregnancy and Persons – book co-edited by Bios Associate Research Fellow Bruce Blackshaw with Nicholas Colgrove and Daniel Rodger

This Routledge collection, part of the Annals of Bioethics series, provides extensive and critical engagement by philosophers and doctors with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion… MORE

Abortion and women’s decision-making

Dr Ilaria Bertini has an article in BioLaw on UK law and practice and women’s decision-making on abortion. MORE

Multi-fetal pregnancy reduction

Bios senior research fellow Dr Greg Pike has published an article in Issues in Law and Medicine on multifetal pregnancy reduction, together with a blogpost on the Journal of Medical… MORE

The benefits, risks, and alternatives of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy – Bringing proportionality into public policy debate

Abstract Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT) utilises nuclear transfer technology to replace defective mitochondria with healthy ones and thereby minimise the risk of a mitochondrial disease passing from a mother to… MORE

Substance View of Persons

Bios associate research fellow Bruce Blackshaw has an article in The New Bioethics on ‘Defending the substance view against its critics.’ MORE

Maternal mortality and abortion in Malawi

Bios research associate Dr Calum Miller has published an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on maternal mortality and abortion in Malawi, and an associated… MORE

Conscientious objection in healthcare

Bios research associate Toni Saad with co-author Nathan Gamble has published an article in Clinical Ethics with the title ‘A taxonomy of conscientious objection in healthcare.’ MORE

Professor Alexander Pruss presents at the Bios BWIP Seminar Series

To start off the new year the January BWIP Seminar Series was given by Prof Pruss who gave us a very rich talk setting out his new research `Defining Murder’.… MORE

Euthanasia and assisted suicide – when choice is an illusion and informed consent fails

Arguments for legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide always rely upon the assertion that a patient must always make a persistent, well-considered, and free choice to end his or her life.… MORE