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The ethics of collecting data


How social media sites and algorithms effect our wellbeing. […]

Last week, a healthy baby was born from a woman who had been brain dead for nearly five months. The decision to keep the mother alive for so long must have been a difficult one for the doctors. This case reveals the ethical complexity of modern healthcare. Dr Daniel Sokol, a leading medical ethicist and clinical […]
The mesmeric impact of an ancient Greek doctor on many hundreds of years of medicine is one of the more remarkable artefacts of the history of the world. I found it so fascinating that more than 20 years ago I wrote a book about Hippocrates and used his famed Oath as a foil to some current […]
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