January 18, 2022
Research Ethics (vol. 17, no. 4, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Towards an ?m?lúàbí Code of Research Ethics: Applying a Situated, Participant-Centred Virtue Ethics Framework to Fieldwork with Disadvantaged Populations in Diverse Cultural Settings” by Bukola … Read More
January 13, 2022
(Associated Press) – The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week analyzing the genetic material of COVID-19 cases … Read More
January 12, 2022
(Science) – The procedure, done by a team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), was a major test for several experimental innovations designed to keep the pig heart functioning in a human chest, including 10 genetic changes … Read More
January 12, 2022
(STAT News) – In the last half-dozen years, researchers have launched investigations into how different forms of neuromodulation affect addiction, depression, loss-of-control eating, tremor, chronic pain, obsessive compulsive disorder, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and more. Early studies have shown subtle electrical … Read More
January 12, 2022
Clinical Ethics (vol. 16, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Rationing Health and Social Goods during Pandemics: Guidance for Ghanaian Decision Makers” by Amos Laar, et al. “The Legal Ambiguity of Advanced Assistive Bionic Prosthetics: … Read More
January 11, 2022
The New Bioethics (vol. 27, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Posthumanism: Creation of ‘New Men’ through Technological Innovation” by George L. Mendz and Michael Cook “Dual Uncertainties: On Equipoise, Sex Differences and Chirality in … Read More
January 10, 2022
(Nature) – The era of genetic therapies — both gene-editing treatments and gene therapies, several of which are now on the market — has arrived for rare disease. But as more of these therapies come online, it is time to … Read More
January 10, 2022
(Associated Press) – In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. … Read More
January 10, 2022
Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health (vol. 18, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “COVID-19: The Urgent Call for Academic Research in Research Ethics” by C. Bommier, H.-C. Stœklé and C. Hervé “Could Health only be Defined by … Read More
January 4, 2022
HEC Forum (vol. 33, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Considerations of Conscience” by Bryan Pilkington “Why Tolerate Conscientious Objections in Medicine” by Thomas D. Harter “Tensions Between Ethics and the Law: Examination of a … Read More
