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Quandary
Quandary column
When Do We Become Autonomous?
By Michael Cook
It’s more important for a child to live to become an autonomous adult than to die to defend her mother’s prejudices against medicine.
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The Bio-Brick Revolution
By Michael Cook
While synthetic biology promises benefits such as glow-in-the dark trees that replace city lights, there are many more sinister applications that have many people worried.
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Mars Mission Bioethics 101
By Michael Cook
A one-way trip to Mars, funded from the rights to a reality TV show, raises many bioethical issues.
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Married at First Sight
By Michael Cook
Reality TV has added a fresh perspective to the bioethical debate about the use of love drugs.
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Ethics in a Time of Ebola
By Michael Cook
The Ebola outbreak has revealed a number of ethical issues that need to be sorted urgently.
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Contraception by WiFi
By Michael Cook
How secure is an implantable chip that enables birth control to be switched on and off with a mobile phone?
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What If Computers Have Feelings, Too?
By Michael Cook
If software becomes intelligent, what are the ethics of creating, modifying and deleting it from our hard drives?
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The Bioethics of the Search for MH370
By Michael Cook
The search for the missing Malaysian aircraft raises an ethical dilemma over the bias we place on “identifiable” lives over “statistical” lives.
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Scan My Embryo’s Barcode
By Michael Cook
IVF “mix-ups” could be avoided by barcoding embryos, but at what point is a new life reduced to a manufactured product?
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Brain Death Doubters
By Michael Cook
Recent cases show that doctors still do not agree about when death actually happens.
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