Healthcare

Judicial activism, suicidal ideation, reasons to stay alive, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice
‘None of us can avoid fundamental questions about what it means to be human. These issues are far too important to be left to doctors’
The book reconsidered, the Moscow State University reading list, audiobooks, and the decline of the reading Christian
The invention of ‘brain death’, the child’s best interests, the end of ‘doctor knows best’, and protective power of attorney
Libraries of recipe books, BRCA1, Gattaca, and Big Data Towers of Babel
Dogs and Guinness on the wards, complicated grief, DNAR discussions, and resisting assisted dying
The dragon tyrant, transhumanism, the yuck factor, and the divinisation of humanity
‘I’m less worried about lethal autonomous weapons. What’s most scary are intelligent computers which can simulate compassion.’
The ‘Google baby’, Oliver O’Donovan, 14-day-old embryos, and techno-optimism