
‘Don’t bother the midwife’: abortion as a parable for assisted suicide
The current series of Call the Midwife is set in 1966. We dispensed with World Cup fever in about half…

COVAX – Its opportunities and challenges
Early in the pandemic (24 April 2020), long before any manufacturer had a vaccine ready for sale, long…

Can we vaccinate our way out of the pandemic?
Here in the UK, we have been feeling pretty good about ourselves recently, with (at the time of writing)…

Nuffield Council on Bioethics: The care and treatment of children and adolescents in relation to their gender identity – ethical issues
The aim of this Nuffield project is to carry out an in-depth review of the ethical challenges in the…