Issue 21(4) – December 2024 Editorials Recent Developments Critical Perspectives Original Research Book Reviews
Critical Bioethics
Issue 20(1)
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…
Issue 19(3): Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technology
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2022 Guest Editor: Evie Kendal Editorial Michael Ashby Despair of the Intellect, but Hope of the Heart? Recent Developments Neera Bhatia Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v WV [2022] EWCOP 9 Symposium: Lead essay Evie Kendal Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technology (ELSIET) Symposium Symposium:…
Enhancing Gender
Original Research Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 2. Hazem Zohny, Brian D. Earp & Julian Savulescu Abstract Transgender healthcare faces a dilemma. On the one hand, access to certain medical interventions, including hormone treatments or surgeries, where desired, may be beneficial or even vital for some gender dysphoric trans people. But…
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…
Liminality: The Not-So-New Normal?
Editorial. Free Access. Published online 6 April 2022. Michael A. Ashby This edition of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry carries a symposium compiled in honour of the work of a distinguished pioneer of Australian bioethics: Miles Little. As the symposium shows, Little started to work on methods and subjects that seem obvious to us now (the patient…
Symposium: The Legacy of Miles Little
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2022 Guest Editors: Claire Hooker, Ian Kerridge, Wendy Lipworth, and Kathryn MacKay The full texts of all the symposium articles are available to read using the links below**. Editorial : Liminality: The Not-So-New Normal?, Free Access, Michael Ashby Lead essay: A Discursive Exploration of Values and Ethics in…
Issues 19(1): Symposium–The Legacy of Miles Little
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…
Care for Language: Etymology as a Continental Argument in Bioethics
Original research Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Published online 1 October 2021. Hub Zwart Abstract: Emphasizing the importance of language is a key characteristic of philosophical reflection in general and of bioethics in particular. Rather than trying to eliminate the historicity and ambiguity of language, a continental approach to bioethics will make conscious use…