December 5, 2017
(Eurekalert) – Nearly half of the 13 million older adults hospitalized annually in the United States are unable to make their own medical decisions and rely on surrogates, usually close family members, to make decisions for them. However little is … Read More
December 4, 2017
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 17, no. 9, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Bridge Back to the Future: Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, and Environmental Ethics” by Lisa M. Lee “Now is the Time for … Read More
November 29, 2017
(Fox News) – In 1972, America was finally getting out of Vietnam. Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit China, and a news story stunned the nation. Inside the idyllic looking Willowbrook School on New York’s Staten Island, … Read More
November 29, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Do the reproductive choices of prospective parents truly align with their values and priorities? How do doctors, reproductive technologies, and the law influence those choices? And why should certain women receive medical assistance to establish a pregnancy, … Read More
October 31, 2017
(BBC) – British athletes were threatened with not being selected if they spoke out about classification concerns in Paralympic sports, MPs have been told. “It’s somewhere between bullying and control,” said 11-time Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. She was speaking … Read More
October 30, 2017
Metaphilosophy (vol. 48, no. 4, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Pragmatism” by Raff Donelson “The Philosophical Use and Misuse of Science” by Justine Kingsbury and Tim Dare “On the Structure of Bioethics as a Pragmatic Discipline” … Read More
October 25, 2017
(Scientific American) – Medical historians have recently published accounts that show neurologists were indeed complicit with the Nazis—and became victims if they were classified as “non-Aryan. Heiner Fangerau, who teaches the history and ethics of medicine at University Hospital Düsseldorf—along … Read More
October 25, 2017
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law (vol. 10, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Liver Transplantation for Non-Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases at a Single Centre in South Africa: A Report of the Ethics and Regulatory … Read More
October 24, 2017
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 42, no. 4, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Current Dilemmas in Defining the Boundaries of Disease” by Jenny Doust, Mary Jean Walker, and Wendy A. Rogers “Geneticization in MIM/OMIM®? … Read More
October 23, 2017
(BBC) – The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry. “I have listened carefully to all who have expressed their concerns,” WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in … Read More
October 23, 2017
(STAT News) – Like many of the scientists who helped usher in the groundbreaking creation of a part-human, part-animal chimera earlier this year, biologist Dr. Pablo Juan Ross is no stranger to cutting-edge tools such as CRISPR and stem cells. … Read More
October 20, 2017
Christian Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Scandal of Secular Bioethics: What Happens When the Culture Acts as if there is No God?” by Mark J. Cherry “A God’s-Eye Perspective after Onto-Theology: … Read More
October 17, 2017
The New Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Sperm Donation and the Right to Privacy” by Oliver Hallich “Kinship Identities in the Context of UK Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pronuclear Transfer Legislation” by … Read More
October 11, 2017
(Gizmodo) – But there are rare, new alternatives of doctors incentivizing altruistic donations. One such promising idea is UCLA’s new “take-a-kidney-leave-a-kidney” voucher program. It solves the problem of what doctors are calling “chronological incompatibility”—friends and family who would be willing … Read More
October 5, 2017
(Undark) – We now know that the Holmes opinion was both cruel and false — and is contradicted by a historic marker in Charlottesville, Virginia that has nothing to do with the Civil War, or the soldier-on-horseback monuments that have … Read More
October 3, 2017
(The Atlantic) – Every day brings fresh reminders that liberal and illiberal democracy can entwine uncomfortably, a timely context for James Q. Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model, which examines how the Third Reich found sustenance for its race-based initiatives in American … Read More
October 3, 2017
(BBC) – Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. The body clock – or circadian rhythm – is the reason we want to sleep at night, but it also … Read More
September 29, 2017
(Smithsonian) – Public health policies–like immigration policies–were colored by eugenics. It was common for privileged elites to look down on workers and the poor as inferior categories of human being, whose natural degeneracy predisposed them to disease and deformity. It … Read More
September 27, 2017
(The Conversation) – Today, a primary goal of both movements aimed at care of the dying – palliative care and euthanasia – is to eliminate suffering. These are underpinned by the idea that a good death is a painless death. … Read More
September 27, 2017
Zygon Journal of Religion and Science (vol. 52, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Furnishing The Skill Which Can Save The Child: Diphtheria, Germ Theory, and Theodicy” by Kristin Johnson “Holistic Biology: What It Is … Read More
September 26, 2017
(STAT News) – As a bioethicist working on the ethical and policy issues regarding prescription opioids, I am grateful to the National Academy of Medicine for inviting me to serve on this publication’s authorship team, and for taking seriously the … Read More
September 25, 2017
(Quartz) – [William van Eelen] entered medical school in 1948. As Ira van Eelen recounts it, one day during her dad’s first year, he came across a group of researchers in the laboratory using stem cell technology to grow cells … Read More
September 22, 2017
(The Atlantic) – Willie Parker is an imposing ob-gyn who has been traveling across the deep South providing abortions since 2012. At times, he has been one of the few providers in the only abortion clinic for hundreds of miles. … Read More
September 21, 2017
(Wired) – Recently, the “trolley problem,” a decades-old thought experiment in moral philosophy, has been enjoying a second career of sorts, appearing in nightmare visions of a future in which cars make life-and-death decisions for us. Among many driverless car … Read More
September 21, 2017
(ABC News) – The Navy’s surgeon general has ordered a stand down for all Navy medical personnel over the next 48 hours to reaffirm service commitments to patients and review social media policies after photos emerged on social media of … Read More
