by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Treated for specific disorders – serious obsessive compulsive disorder and epilepsy, etc. – patients given deep brain stimulation have noticed changes in how they perceive things. The question of responsibility comes to the fore as neurotechnologies...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The legal debate is underway – are embryos stored in fertility clinics alive and are they classed as persons? Rick et Wendy Penniman lost their frozen embryos following an equipment malfunction at the Cleveland Fertility Clinic[1]. Represented by their lawyer,...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
After votes in the House of Representatives and the Senate on 6 and 30 March,[1] Governor of Hawaii David Ige signed a measure into law legalizing assisted suicide. “We know that we have gotten to a point in our community that it does make sense to give the patient a...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
This is an extraordinary medical case according to Professor Xavier Capdevila, Head of the Anaesthesia-Intensive Care Unit at Montpellier University Hospital (CHU). A 53 year-old man was resuscitated eighteen hours after his heart had stopped beating. On 12...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Following a DNA test carried out in conjunction with Ancestry.com, a young woman, Kelli Rowlette, not only found out that she was born through artificial insemination, which her parents had always kept from her, but that her biological father was none other than the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 17 Apr, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In Japan, a pregnant employee was reprimanded for getting pregnant outside the company’s “pregnancy schedule”. The company introduced a rotation system for employees wanting to get married or have a child, etc. This type of planning is not uncommon...