Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 20, Issue 1 Free Access Editorial: “The Danger of Words”: Language Games in Bioethics Michael A. Ashby Free Access Editorial: Dogs, Epistemic Indefensibility and Ethical Denial: Don’t Let Sleeping Dog Owners Lie David Shaw Open Access Recent Developments: Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia—Key Similarities and Points of Difference Concerning Eligibility…
Bio-Politics
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being
Original Research Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 2 Ryan Essex Abstract Resistance involves a range of actions such as disobedience, insubordination, misbehaviour, agitation, advocacy, subversion, and opposition. Action that occurs both publicly, privately, and day-to-day in the delivery of care, in discourse and knowledge. In this article I will demonstrate how…
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?
Michael A. Ashby Editorial. Free Access. Published online 21 June 2022. As previously argued in this column, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and magnified all the old potholes, the existing inequalities, deficits, state failures, discrimination, and vulnerabilities, rather than, for the most part, creating new problems. It is true that all people across the world–including…
COVID-19 and Biomedical Experts: When Epistemic Authority is (Probably) Not Enough
Critical Perspectives Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Published 17 January 2022. Pietro Pietrini, Andrea Lavazza & Mirko Farina Abstract: This critical essay evaluates the potential integration of distinct kinds of expertise in policymaking, especially during situations of critical emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This article relies on two case studies: (i) herd immunity…
JBI Dialogues: Episode 5
Institutional Racism, Whiteness, and Bioethics – Christopher Mayes In this episode of JBI Dialogues, Dr Christopher Mayes talks about the journal’s new symposium Institutional Racism, Whiteness, and Bioethics. Chris is a Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University and a Research-Affiliate in Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney. He is…
Issue 18(1): Institutional Racism, Whiteness, and Bioethics
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2021 Guest editors: Christopher Mayes, Yin Paradies, Amanuel Elias Editorial Michael A. Ashby The Shifts in Human Consciousness Recent Developments Michaela Estelle Okninski Why Death Need Not Be “Reasonably Foreseeable”—The Proposed Legislative Response to Truchon and Gladu v Attorney General (Canada) and Attorney General (Quebec) [2019] QCCS…
Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2020Guest editors: Michael Chapman, Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge, and Ross Upshur Lead essay: Inside the pandemic Symposium articles: 65 papers #Free2Read Podcast: Editors & authors in conversation Since I last wrote: Updates & reflections Images: CDC / Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS (2020) Chapman Chow…
Issue 17(4): Social and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2020Guest editors: Michael Chapman, Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge, and Ross Upshur Recent Developments Neera Bhatia Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14: The Cost of International Commercial Surrogacy Recoverable as Damages: A Step in the Right Direction? Symposium: COVID-19 – Lead essay Michael Chapman, Paul…
Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Part 2
ePub ahead of print, 10 November, 2020. The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is pleased to share the second set of articles from its symposium on social and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Together with the papers from part 1, the complete symposium presents 65 articles from 133 authors across the globe. The symposium editors…
Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Part 1
ePub ahead of print, August 25, 2020. Following an extraordinary response from authors from across the globe, the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is pleased to share the first set of remarkable articles from its symposium on social and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The symposium editors have organised these contributions into seven themes: overviews…







