By Liam Kelly Following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration that the international spread of COVID-19 constituted a pandemic on the 11th of March, 2020, it did not take long for institutions and individuals on the frontlines of response measures to recognize that they were actually confronted with two global public health crises at once….
Issue 21(4) – December 2024 Editorials Recent Developments Critical Perspectives Original Research Book Reviews
By Lachlan Dowling, JBI Intern Amidst an era of turbulent change wherein the commitment of our prized institutions to the common good is doubted, a poem by the late-Russian Yevgeny Yevtushenko is particularly poignant. Entitled ‘Half Measures’, Yevtushenko criticises Russia during its 1990s democratisation over poorly implemented reforms: “…[W]ith every half-effective half measure Half the…
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 aim of being more than “just a journal”—more than merely a place where scholars and practitioners could publish their research, critical reflections, and analyses of bioethical issues and practice. Rather,…
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…
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…
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 19, Issue 4 Free Access Editorial: One Last Unexpected Lesson From the Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II Michael Ashby Open Access Recent Developments: Victoria, Australia, is getting a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill Chris Maylea Free Access Letter to the Editor: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing George Skowronski…
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…
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…