Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
The boundaries that shape my writing
While writing about her life can be enormously helpful, Caroline Butterwick needs to regularly reassess her boundaries. Here she explores the line between what’s public and what’s private, and how porous that can be.
- Article
Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
Catalogue
- Books
Ethics and the university / Michael Davis.
Davis, Michael, 1943-Date: 1999- Books
Ethics and community in the health care professions / edited by Michael Parker.
Date: 1999- Books
Ethics in public and community health / edited by Peter Bradley and Amanda Buris.
Date: 2000- Journals
Professional ethics report : newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Committee on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility, Professional Society Ethics Group.
Date: [1988-]- Archives and manuscripts
Professional secrecy
Date: 1915-1950Reference: SA/BMA/D.167-175Part of: British Medical Association