Press Articles by Topic

AI/ Robotics

• Edinburgh Evening News: Calum MacKellar examines a cyber future where virtual reality could become actual reality

• Edinburgh Evening News: Tomorrow’s technology is today’s debate

• The Scotsman: Could robot nurses ease the pain at NHS?

• The Scotsman: Oh, the humanity – are we in danger of losing it by melding man and machine?

Beginning of Life Issues

• The problems arising in stem-cell research

• State should not deny child’s need for a father

• A place for caution in research

• It’s life but not as we know it

• Scientific and moral needs must be balanced in stem-cell legislation

• Who are the real creators of a human being?

• Is preconception genetic testing and screening eugenic?

• Should persons affected by mitochondrial disorder be brought into existence?

• Questions relating to ‘mitochondrial replacement’

• Widespread and ‘respectable’ eugenic policies of the past teach sobering lessons for the present

• Eugenics wasn’t always a dirty word

• Radical leaps in scientific progress have raised some complex issues over the position of parents

• The question of whether an embryo is a pile of cells or a person is up for debate at a film festival

• ‘Form of genetic cleansing amounts to discrimination’

• Gene editing of human embryos – more ethical questions to answer

• The Scotsman: Westminster’s liberal attitude to human embryology and abortion denies Scottish public a voice

• The Scotsman: Real concerns over ability to edit a human life

• The Scotsman: New powers on abortion mean everybody should be informed

• The Scotsman: Choosing baby’s sex is a wider debate

• Bio News: The 14-day rule for embryonic research in the UK

• The Scotsman: Preserving life is key to abortion debate

• The Scotsman: Human beings can now be edited… but we may not like the results

• The Scotsman: Westminster moves to outlaw abortion over disability could open new debate

• The Scotsman: Trudy is part of our happy and fulfilling family

• The Scotsman: Now abortion is devolved, let’s hear what Scots want

• The Scotsman: Equality and fairness? People with disability are being judged before they are even born

• The Scotsman: Public want a legal framework to have the final say on ethics of abortion

• The Scotsman: Ovarian transplants can give birth to ethical questions over meaning of fertility

• Bio News: The Nuffield report on genome editing and the equality of persons

• The Scotsman: Selling surrogacy is a step towards slavery as women are dehumanised

• Bio News: Why the Law Commissions’ consultation paper on surrogacy reform was incomplete

• The Herald: Right to life does not depend on age or disability

• The Scotsman: Who decides what a life is worth? Not the weak and defenceless

• The Scotsman: Think twice before making home abortions the new normal

• The Scotsman: Are full home abortions legal?

• The Scotsman: Abortion legislation covering disability is unethical

• The Scotsman: Petition aims to end abortions based solely on disability

Biomedical Research

• Edinburgh Evening News: Film festival can help equip people with tools they need to get to grips with ins and outs of biomedical research

• The Scotsman: A chance to Share in vital medical research

• Edinburgh Evening News: As medical progress speeds up, we need to ask tough questions about the sort of society we are creating

• The Herald: Genetic link to IQ will lead scientists into very tricky moral dilemmas

Cloning

• The Scotsman: Is Scottish law on cloning to change with no discussion by MSPs?

End of Life Issues

• Edinburgh Evening News: Assisted dying means accepting loss of dignity

• Edinburgh Evening News: Assisted dying isn’t only way terminally ill can maintain dignity

• The Journal: Dignity is not the same as choice

• The Herald: Level of support for euthanasia legislation determined by wording in opinion polls

• The Scotsman: Dignity of life trumps the choice of the ill to end their suffering

• Southern Reporter: ‘To function consistently, society must reject assisted suicide…’

• Edinburgh Evening News: Debate is a matter of life or death for Scots

• The Scotsman: Assisted suicide a Trojan horse

• The Scotsman: Assisted suicide is an assault on dignity

• The Press and Journal: Can we really apply ‘euthanasia for dogs’ example to humans?

• The Scotsman: When an ‘inspirational’ film sends out depressing, dangerous message

• The Scotsman: What is in the ‘best interests’ of a patient where treatment is of no benefit?

• The Scotsman: The value of human life should restrain society from taking it

• The Scotsman: The equality of all human beings is the highest value

• Mercator Net: A focus on ‘autonomy’ cheapens the value of human life

• The Scotsman: Legalising assisted suicide risks the principle of the equality of all lives

• Mercator Net: We should treat all lives as equal. With assisted suicide we don’t.

• The Scotsman: Legalising assisted suicide would set us on slippery slope towards euthanasia

• The Scotsman: Danger that new law could lead to a greater uptake in assisted suicide

• The Scotsman: There can be suffering in assisted suicide too

• The Scotsman: If every life is of equal value, why promote assisted suicide?

• The Scotsman: Assisted dying should not be offered as a solution to problems we have caused

Gender Issues

• The Scotsman: Self-declaratory system for gender recognition needs far more clarity

• The Scotsman: Self-declaratory system for gender recognition must be questioned

• The Scotsman: Time for measured debate on the role of GPs in gender dysphoria

• The Scotsman: Think again about gender reform

Human-non Human Ethics

• Edinburgh Evening News: It’s life but not as we know it…

• The Scotsman: Scientific community cannot always expect to regulate itself

• The Scotsman: Is Scottish law on cloning to change with no discussion by MSPs?

• Edinburgh Evening News: Future under the microscope

• The Scotsman: Ethics of human/animal experiments must be set

Neuro Ethics

• Edinburgh Evening News: Keeping an open mind

• The Scotsman: The average person now spends more tie using technology than sleeping, survey reveals.

Organ Transplantation

• Edinburgh Evening News: Legal body part selling is too dangerous

• The Scotsman: Illegal human organ sales

• The Herald: Market in body parts is unethical

• The Herald: Legal position on organ consent

• The Scotsman: Organ donations need prior consent

• The Scotsman: Bill can help stamp out organ trafficking

• The Scotsman: Dangers of soft opt-out for organ donation

• The Scotsman: Opt-out organ donor system open to charges of ignoring informed consent

• The Scotsman: Holyrood’s proposed organ opt-out bill seriously misleading the public

• The Herald: Why Human Tissue Bill should be rejected

• The Scotsman: Gullible MSPs nodded through an organ bill they didn’t understand

Psychiatry Ethics

• Edinburgh Evening News: Complex world of medicine

• Guardian Edinburgh: Psychiatry debates and screenings at the Filmhouse