Recent Online Articles
Book Reviews
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
by Theodore Dalrymple
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
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Opinion
What did Sheen know?
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"After me, the deluge"
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Has the Definition of Death Collapsed?
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Recommended Resources
Give Women Choice: Australia Speaks on Abortion
JI Fleming & S Ewing
Living Wills: An Ethical Analysis
Z Alstin
Human Embryos: A Limitless Scientific Resource?
JI Fleming, GK Pike & S Ewing
Common Ground? Seeking an Australian Consensus on Abortion and Sex Education
Editors JI Fleming and N Tonti-Filippini
Special Thanks
The team at Southern Cross Bioethics Institute acknowledges and values its affiliations with Southern Cross Care Tasmania and Southern Cross Care Broken Hill. Both organisations generously support the work of the Institute.
Bioethics Research Notes
SCBI offers a quarterly publication called Bioethics Research Notes (BRN). We invite professional bioethicists and people in related professions who have expertise in bioethics, to write on topics such as abortion, euthanasia, reproductive technology and many other relevant topics in bioethics.
The BRN is distributed nation-wide and overseas, to a readership that includes academic researchers, medical professionals, legal professionals, politicians, students, and various research institutes and libraries. Each edition contains up to 6 articles, which includes opinion pieces, book reviews and student essays. We encourage you to take the opportunity to subscribe to our BRN and stay informed on the latest issues in bioethics. Please click here for your free sample issue
Research at SCBI
Cloning Review
The legislation governing research on embryos as well as embryo cloning is currently being reviewed by the relevant Act. Over two hundred public submissions have been made. The question of payment for human eggs and the creation of human/animal hybrid embryos were two of the more controversial issues being addressed. The director of SCBI appeared before the committee. For more information see http://legislationreview.nhmrc.gov.au/
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Fundraising
Protecting the life and care of your children, your children's children, born or unborn, handicapped or abled, your mother or father, during pregnancy, sickness or dying has never before been so complicated. Southern Cross Bioethics Institute continually strives to uphold a respect for universal and intrinsic human values including the inalienable right to life of every member of the human family. Please help us to continue to exist and support our research projects with a financial gift. Your generosity supports us in our commitment to harmonise biomedical research, healthcare and technology with fundamental human values.
