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Private Practice: Acting ethically at the Wellness Center?1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 5 months ago: (Warning – contains plot spoilers!) Private Practice is a spin-off from Seattle hospital drama … more →

Tags: Clinical ethics, Human tissue usage, "PGD", HIV, Saviour Siblings, Private Practice, Kate Walsh, Addison Montgomery, Shonda Rhimes

Holby City - Resource allocation UPDATE

Bonnie Green wrote 9 months ago: The most recent episode of Holby City is available to view of download on via the BBC iPlayer. Follo … more →

Tags: Clinical ethics, Holby city, Lifestyle & Genetic Disease, Connie Beauchamp, health care provision, Lifestyle Choices, NHS, obesity, Resource Allocation

Holby City - "If you can't...look after yourself, then why should we?"1 comment

Bonnie Green wrote 11 months ago: Watch this episode via the BBC iPlayer (available until January 27th 2009) The issue of resource all … more →

Tags: Clinical ethics, Holby city, Lifestyle & Genetic Disease, transplantation, Bioethics, George Best, NHS, Resource Allocation

Fighting Talk (Doctors) - a duty to disclose?

Chris Willmott wrote 1 year ago: (Warning: contains plot spoilers!) This is an old episode of the BBC’s daytime drama Doctors, … more →

Tags: Clinical ethics, autonomy, doctors, HIV, consent, Disclosure

The Family Man - playing God at the fertility clinic?3 comments

David Willis wrote 1 year ago:   The Family Man – Dr Patrick Stowe   (Warning: contains plot spoilers!) The Family Man is a t … more →

Tags: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), Abortion, Genetic screening, Human cloning, IVF, Gene testing, Clinical ethics, Cloning, genetic disease

WIT: A window on tensions in clinical trials1 comment

David Willis wrote 1 year ago: (Warning: contains plot spoilers!) Adapted from Margaret Edson’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning p … more →

Tags: Clinical ethics, Clinical Trials, Curricula, film, Play, Research Ethics, A-Level, autonomy, beneficience

Faking it for real - A Paper Mask (Collee, 1987)1 comment

Bonnie Green wrote 1 year ago:     Paul McGann plays Martin Harris/Dr Simon Hennessey in Paper Mask (1990, [VHS], High Fliers Video … more →

Tags: book, Clinical ethics, film, Research Ethics, bogus doctors, book learning, Collins and Pinch 2005, Expertise, formal knowledge

A suitable donor? - Hollyoaks

Chris Willmott wrote 1 year ago: I have to say from the outset that I am not usually a Hollyoaks fan and, as this post will show, I … more →

Tags: Gene testing, transplantation, Bioethics, Hollyoaks, Genetic testing, paternity

The vivisection debate: Animals (More4)

David Willis wrote 2 years ago: Part of a season of programmes about aspects of animal use in research, this drama/documentary was f … more →

Tags: Research Ethics, Animal Experimentation, Clinical Trials, TV (documentary), Selective breeding, Bioethics, animals, Vivisection, SHAC

"The ultimate upgrade" - Doctor Who & the Cybermen (parts 1 & 2)2 comments

Bonnie Green wrote 2 years ago: In a two part episode concerning the Doctor’s encounter with the Cybermen, The Rise of the Cyb … more →

Tags: cybernetics, Doctor Who, Extended commentaries, Transhumanism & Posthumanism

“The Meaning of Humanity” - Doctor Who

Bonnie Green wrote 2 years ago: The recent season of Doctor Who, the third since the relaunch of the the iconic series after a long … more →

Tags: Doctor Who, Transgenic animals

Euthanasia, counterfeit drugs - Holby City1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: (Warning, contains plot spoilers!) In this episode, If the heart lies (October 10th 2006,  BBC1, TRI … more →

Tags: Counterfeit medicine, euthanasia, Holby city

Euthanasia - Holby City

Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: (Warning, contains plot spoilers!) Moondance (17th October 2006, BBC1, TRILT code 005CBA8B) focuses … more →

Tags: euthanasia, Holby city

Euthanasia - Holby City1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: With her motor neurone disease getting worse, Gina decides to take matters into her own hands and pl … more →

Tags: Counterfeit medicine, euthanasia, Holby city

AIDS Medicines, Selling Organs - Holby City1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: (Warning: contains plot spoilers!) The principal bioethics storyline in the episode Fly me to the mo … more →

Tags: Holby city, Human tissue usage, third world

Xenotransplantation & Stem cells - Holby City1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: This episode is a bit of a bioethics-fest!  In addition to the xenotransplantation storyline started … more →

Tags: Holby city, Research Ethics, Stem cells, Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation - Holby City1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago:  A recent episode of the medical drama Holby City has a 90 second clip that could prove a very nice … more →

Tags: Holby city, Human tissue usage, Xenotransplantation, Abra Durant, transplant

Xenotranplantation - Pig-Heart Boy11 comments

Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: Pig-Heart Boy is the fictional account of Cameron, a thirteen year old boy who takes part in a pione … more →

Tags: book, Xenotransplantation

Stem cells - short clip from South Park

Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: The episode “Kenny Dies”, the last in Season 5 of South Park, features some surprisingly … more →

Tags: Stem cells


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