Disability, fetuses and discrimination
By Pablo de Lora Is “eugenic abortion” better described as discrimination against the disabled? That is one of the hottest issues currently debated in Spain (yes, we sometimes have some spare time to...
View ArticleShould the Government enforce “moral doping”?
Forget Lance Armstrong for a second and think about “biomedical moral enhancement”, a proposal recently defended by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu in Unfit for the Future. The Need for Moral...
View ArticleShould autopsies prevail over organ donation? A drama in three acts
Picture the scene (I). Its 4 am, November 1st. 4 young girls in their Halloween costumes are being rushed to the hospital after the tragic stampede that took place minutes ago at the “Madrid Arena”, a...
View ArticleSlipping Euthanasia in Belgium
Happy New Year billofhealthfans!! As you all know Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002 following the path of The Netherlands. The legalization came in the midst of a huge controversy. The influence of...
View ArticlePool of Siloam in Tennessee? Brute luck in health care distribution
I had recently come across this piece in the NYT. The first thing that came to my mind is the biblical story about the pool of Siloam, a tale that, with all due respect to believers, illustrates the...
View ArticleOrgan Donation Euthanasia
ELPAT (Ethical, Legal and Psycho-social aspects of Transplantation) is a division of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT). During the last weekend, the third ELPAT Conference has been...
View ArticleART, lesbians and justice in the distribution of health care
In the wake of our seemingly everlasting economic crisis, the Spanish health authorities have decided to exclude single women to access ART treatments – mainly artificial insemination- in the public...
View ArticleFetuses, Organs and Brain-Death
One of the things that strikes me in the debate over whether a State has a sufficiently compelling interest in sustaining the physiological functions of a dead-brain pregnant woman in order to protect...
View ArticleAre you my mother? The Spanish Supreme Court and surrogacy tourism
In a divided opinion (4 dissenting judges out of 9) the Civil Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court has ruled against the inscription in favor of the intending fathers of children who are born as a...
View ArticleOrgan Transplantation: Legal and Ethical Challenges (EdX Course)
My university has recently joined EdX and is offering four courses starting February 2015. I have had the privilege of being selected as one of the instructors. I, along with Alicia Pérez Blanco (a...
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