Category Law & Policy

Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Medical Fascism, & the Role of Bioethics

Florence Ashley connects conservative attacks against gender-affirming care to wider fascist movements determined to eliminate marginalized groups

The NY Declaration on Animal Consciousness: New or Very Old News?

Andrew Fenton examines the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness with an eye to a previous declaration and some current animal law and policies concerning scientific animal use.

Vaccines Treating Cancer: Would Anti-Vaxxers Change their Minds?

Chris Kaposy wonders about the impact of mRNA vaccines that treat cancer on the anti-vaccine movement.

The Mismanagement of Health Benefit Plans for Federal Employees

Pamela M White suggests that driving a hard bargain on the re-tendering of the federal employee health insurance plan but not performing due diligence resulted in poor service quality.

MAiD in Canada: A Sober Second Look

Daryl Pullman announces an international symposium examining Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada to be hosted by the Memorial University Centre for Bioethics.