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…
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 2 Free Access Editorial: Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Michael Ashby Open Access Recent Developments: Clinical Software and Bad Decisions: The “Practice Fusion” Settlement and Its Implications Megan Prictor Open Access Critical Perspectives: An Ethical Framework for Visitation of…
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2022 Guest Editors: Claire Hooker, Ian Kerridge, Wendy Lipworth, and Kathryn MacKay Editorial Michael Ashby Liminality: The Not-So-New Normal? Editorial David Shaw The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism Open Access Recent Developments Carolyn Johnston Ethical Design and Use of Robotic…
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…
Editorial. Published online 23 December 2021. Michael A. Ashby As we age, it is so easy to slip into the trap of lamentations: that there were salad days when values were nobler and better upheld, civility reigned, and localism meant that people were more connected. Of course this is not altogether true, and there is…
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2021 Free Access Editorial: A Lost Idyll of Connection? Michael Ashby Recent Developments: Semi-Automated Care: Video-Algorithmic Patient Monitoring and Surveillance in Care Settings Piers M. Gooding & David M. Clifford Letter to the Editor: It Is Time to Stop Racial Exclusion in Scholarly Citations Afsaneh Shirani Critical Perspectives:…
Original Research Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Published online 25 October 2021. David M. Shaw Abstract: We have a responsibility to obey COVID-19 rules, in order to minimize risk. Yet it is still seen as rude to challenge people who do not respect those rules, when in fact the opposite is true; it is…
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2021 Free Access Editorial Michael Ashby, Bronwen Morrell The Pensive Gaze Recent Developments Michaela Estelle Okninski & Joel Grieger Evolving Law: Further Developments Concerning MAID in Canada—Bill C-7 Receives Royal Assent and Revisiting Ethicon Sàrl Letter to the Editor Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient—Fear It…
What is your current role (roles) at the JBI? My primary role with the journal is as an associate editor responsible for ageing. I was also one of the editors for the COVID-19 symposium in 2020 and have supported the journal through managing peer review of some of the COVID-19 submissions since then. Previously, I’ve…
Editorial. Published online 20 October 2021. Michael A. Ashby and Bronwen Morrell Ethical issues are often transacted with passion, righteous anger, and an unhealthy imbalance between heat and light. These strong emotions can be damaging and divisive but also demand our attention and understanding, as we are not, and do not wish to be, thinking…