November 2010

Two Women in Locked in Syndrome: One a Tale of Triumph, the Other, Tragedy

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I recently reported about how a Belgian woman with locked-in syndrome — total quadriplegia with full cognitive capacities caused by brain injury — was euthanized at her request by doctors — who then took her organs pursuant to consent. The idea of coupling euthanasia and [...]

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Ethically Thin, Science Unltd.: The Shape of Progressive Bioethics

By Evan Rosa, CBC Communications DirectorReviewed: Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy and Politics, Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, eds., The MIT Press, 2010“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.” (G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads)Political science, for [...]

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