Bioethics Forum EssayDoctors Googling PatientsIn the current issue of the Hastings Center Report, two teams of physicians and ethicists at Penn State consider the ethics of using online research and social networking tools to learn...Read Doctors Googling PatientsBioethics Forum EssayCharging Smokers Higher Health Insurance Rates: Is it Ethical?Smoking-related illnesses cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars a year in health care expenditures and lost productivity, and claim hundreds of thousands of lives.” Given the enormous...Read Charging Smokers Higher Health Insurance Rates: Is it Ethical?Bioethics Forum EssayThe Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDSThe salience of the Constitution’s spending clause to the public’s health is not often appreciated–empowering the federal government to “provide for the common Defense and general Welfare.” But the power...Read The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDSBioethics Forum Essay“Undocumented Doctors” and the Health of the DreamersLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine’s recent announcement that it would accept applications from Dreamers – young undocumented immigrants eligible for Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA)status – is an innovative and welcome...Read “Undocumented Doctors” and the Health of the DreamersBioethics Forum EssaySports Concussions and SandbaggingSport-related concussions are a significant public health problem, and concussion management is one of the most controversial issues in sports medicine. The latest international consensus statement on concussion in sport advises that...Read Sports Concussions and SandbaggingBioethics Forum EssayTouching HistoryAIDS in New York: The First Five Years is an exhibit running this summer at The New-York Historical Society, an organization so venerable that its name reflects how the city’s name...Read Touching HistoryBioethics Forum EssayLearning to Talk Like a DoctorThree years before beginning medical school, I got off a bus in Granada, Spain and met the family I would be living with for four months. My host parents, Carmen...Read Learning to Talk Like a DoctorBioethics Forum EssayWhy Target National Obesity Rates?In a recent article in the Hastings Center Report, Daniel Callahan argues that obesity is a serious public health problem facing the U.S. and suggests a variety of strategies for combating this problem....Read Why Target National Obesity Rates?Bioethics Forum EssayWhy Target National Obesity Rates?In a recent article in the Hastings Center Report, Daniel Callahan argues that obesity is a serious public health problem facing the U.S. and suggests a variety of strategies for combating this problem....Read Why Target National Obesity Rates?Bioethics Forum EssayA More Ethical Strategy Against Obesity: Changing the Built EnvironmentSince the 1960s, obesity has become one of the most significant health problems in industrialized nations. In the U.S., the percentage of obese adults increased from 13 percent in the 1960s...Read A More Ethical Strategy Against Obesity: Changing the Built Environment