Issue 21(4) – December 2024 Editorials Recent Developments Critical Perspectives Original Research Book Reviews
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JBI blog: The Use and Abuse of Perspective in (Ethical) Reflection on War
By Liam Kelly, JBI Intern As I write this, the film Warfare – co-directed by Civil War’s Alex Garland and Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza – is wrapping up its theatrical run in Australian cinemas. Much of the popular and critical buzz surrounding Warfare concerns its deliberately-narrow scope and purpose: the film purports to represent…
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…
“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 Wittgenstein are hard to approach. Many of us outside the philosophical academy will tend to know more about him through the landmark biography by Ray Monk (1991): the irascible genius…
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…
Issue 18(4)
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:…
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…









