by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The criteria of death questioned An article published on 3rd September 2008 in the first page of the Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican, caused a bit of a furore questioning that the current concept of the brain death is sufficient to declare...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
“Individual choices or medical strategies?” Under the direction of Elise de La Rochebrochard, this issue of the Cahiers de l’INED 1 proposes an analysis on “the explosion of medical consumption” in the field of the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The challenges of the next revision of the laws of bioethics will be complex and determining: this new legislation will fundamentally direct our society in matter of health and research. The debates which will precede this revision, organised within the framework of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
A Guide: why? A few months after the revision of the laws of bioethics of 2004, planned for end of 2009 or beginning of 2010, some people are very interested in these delicate subjects and others avoid them thinking that “it is too complicated for...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
British deputies adopted, in a tense atmosphere and after several hours of lively debate, at the end of May, a new law on human fertilisation and embryology. Abortion British legislation – the most liberal in Europe – authorises the voluntary...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
“Those who make as if children born of artificial insemination with donor sperm can be intensively worried about the story of their conception are idiots.” This is how Arthur tells it, straightforwardly. Nor physicians, nor specialists of a Cecos (Centres...