by Collectif | 30 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis
Véronique Aubergé, a specialist in social robotics, works at the Grenoble 1 Information Technology Department. Fascinated with language, she is studying”the way in which we forge links with machines and the nature of those links”. She wants “to...
by Collectif | 30 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) estimates that a certain number of MAP (medically assisted procreation) clinics in the United Kingdom publish success stories which are misleading for their patients. According to the study, the clinics...
by Collectif | 27 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Recently legalised in Canada, euthanasia is currently being considered alongside organ donation. In fact, bioethicists in Quebec published an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics in December, asking for the organs of euthanised individuals to be harvested. ...
by Collectif | 27 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
At the end of the month, a “baby box” will be installed in the Brussels region at the initiative of the ASBL Corvia association, which helps the homeless. Mothers who see no other solution “can anonymously leave their babies at this centre”....
by Collectif | 27 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In Japan, a team at the RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology”has just clearly demonstrated the functional benefits achieved by transplanting retinal tissue derived from iPS cells [1] in mice in the final stage of retinal degeneration”. Diseases...
by Collectif | 23 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Whereas euthanasia is legal in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, it has nevertheless been banned in the United Kingdom(see Angleterre: opposition à la légalisation de l’euthanasie – England: opposition to the legalisation of...