Remembering Miles Little (28.12.33 – 30.9.23)

Remembering Miles Little (28.12.33 – 30.9.23)

Ian Kerridge, Wendy Lipworth, Christopher F. C. Jordens & Paul A. Komesaroff Free Access Editorial. The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry was established in 2004 with the explicit…

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Ethics, Politics, and Minorities

Ethics, Politics, and Minorities

Michael A. Ashby Free Access Editorial. The late Helen Bamber was a distinguished pioneer of torture, trauma survivor, and refugee welfare work in the United…

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“The Danger of Words”: Language Games in Bioethics

“The Danger of Words”: Language Games in Bioethics

Michael A. Ashby Editorial. Free Access. Published online: 19 April 2023. To most doctors and health workers who haven’t studied philosophy, the works of Ludwig…

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One Last Unexpected Lesson From the Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II?

One Last Unexpected Lesson From the Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II?

Michael A. Ashby Editorial. Free Access. Published online: 2 February 2023. The death of the British sovereign, the longest serving head of state in history…

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Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?

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…

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Liminality: The Not-So-New Normal?

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…

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A Lost Idyll of Connection?

A Lost Idyll of Connection?

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…

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The Pensive Gaze

The Pensive Gaze

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…

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Goodbye Hippocrates?

Goodbye Hippocrates?

Editorial. Published online 29 July 2021. Michael A. Ashby It is still probably widely believed that a new doctor “takes” the Hippocratic “oath,” and that…

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The Shifts in Human Consciousness

The Shifts in Human Consciousness

Editorial. Published online 9 April 2021. Michael A. Ashby “History is unpredictable” (Russian joke) One way to view human history, is to separate it into…

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