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Book Reviews

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen

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Advancing the Culture of Death: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Peter Hung Manh Tran.

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Opinion

Neuroethics: The Law and The Person.

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The Ethics of Caring: Expressing Humanity Towards Babies Born at the Borderline of Viability.

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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

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Recent News and Research at SCBI

Organ Transplantation

Organs available for transplantation from deceased donors in Australia are failing to meet the needs of the individuals on organ transplant waiting lists each year. It is plain to see that an increase in supply of donated organs will improve this disparity and benefit greater numbers of transplant recipients, however some solutions suggested recently in Australia and abroad are intertwined with undesirable ethical costs. Two solutions that have received attention recently include; implementation of an opt-out organ donation system and a change to the dead donor rule.