April 9, 2020
(CNN) – In the US, the largest known concentration of coronavirus cases outside of hospitals isn’t on a cruise ship or in a nursing home. It’s at a jail in Chicago. At least 251 detainees and 150 staff members at … Read More
April 3, 2020
(The Guardian) – As coronavirus lockdowns have been expanded globally, billions of people have found that they are now faced with unprecedented restrictions. Police across the world have been given licence to control behaviour in a way that would normally … Read More
April 2, 2020
(Wired) – Homelessness is incompatible with health. Experts like Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who studies homelessness, have been saying so for decades, but, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s never been truer. … Read More
April 1, 2020
(ABC News) – The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking all its 146,000 inmates in their cells for the next two weeks in an unparalleled effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as the focus shifts to a Louisiana … Read More
April 1, 2020
The New Bioethics (vol. 25, no. 4, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Why Human Enhancement is Necessary for Successful Human Deep-space Missions” by Konrad Szocik and Martin Braddock Should Long-Term Follow-up Post-Mitochondrial Replacement be Left up … Read More
March 24, 2020
(NPR) – The Spanish military has found older residents of some care homes “completely abandoned” and even “dead in their beds,” Defense Minister Margarita Robles said in a television interview on Monday. They were found as soldiers disinfected and provided … Read More
March 20, 2020
(Quartz) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons calling on the agencies to immediately release incarcerated individuals, who are either elderly or have chronic health … Read More
February 28, 2020
(STAT) – Sometimes what doesn’t happen is as interesting as what does. Cloning human embryos has been possible for nearly seven years. Yet as far as I know, during that time no one has made a cloned baby or, apparently, … Read More
February 19, 2020
(Undark) -The recent marginalization of people who are or appear East Asian hardly stops with Kim. The now widely-reported coronavirus causing flu-like symptoms around the globe was first detected last December in Wuhan, a city in China’s Hubei Province. According … Read More
February 14, 2020
(NPR) – The remains of 2,411 fetuses found in Illinois last year after the death of a former abortion provider have been buried, but authorities say they’re no closer to knowing why the doctor had been keeping them. The remains … Read More
