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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Three 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 and Monolo, introduced themselves and asked how old I was, where I was from, and how many sisters and brothers I had. Within a few… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Learning to Talk Like a Doctor
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
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. The article has provoked a great deal of public attention on blogs and web news sites since its publication in January. Much of this attention… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
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. The article has provoked a great deal of public attention on blogs and web news sites since its publication in January. Much of this attention… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Since 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 to 32 percent in 2004. According to some estimates, 41 percent of U.S. adults will be obese by 2015 and 75 percent will be overweight or obese. The… Read more
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A More Ethical Strategy Against Obesity: Changing the Built Environment
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
In his article, “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic,” published in the Hastings Center Report, Daniel Callahan posits that obesity is so widespread and embedded in our culture that most if not all efforts to combat it have failed, and failed miserably. Change, in a large and most revolutionary sense, is required, or as he puts it,… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Obesity and Public Health: No Place for Shame
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Nearly everyone agrees that obesity is a significant public health problem in the United States, and nearly everyone agrees that the public health responses to it so far have been disappointing. So what should be done about it? In the January-February issue of the Hastings Center Report, an article by Hastings Center co-founder, senior scholar, and president emeritus… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Controversy in the Hastings Center Report: Responding to an Article on Obesity
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
The previously obscure ultra-Orthodox Jewish rite of metzitzah b’peh (oral suction) has burst into the news lately and raised critical questions about genital surgery, consent, First Amendment rights, tradition, and the representation of Jews. I would guess that most Americans, even Jewish-Americans, had never heard of metzitzah b’peh (oral suction) until the recent controversy between ultra-Orthodox Jews… Read more
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Rites and Wrongs: Changing a Ritual from Within
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
As any philosopher worth his or her salt can tell you, health insurance is not among the array of topics in Plato’s corpus. Even so, a lesson on citizenship from one of his more famous dialogues, “Crito,” can teach why the insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act ought to make sense to us. In… Read more
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What Can Plato Teach Us About the Health Insurance Mandate?
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A recent editorial in Nature lauds the U.S. government for its efforts to promote open communication between government scientists and journalists, but it condemns the Canadian government for its opposing efforts to limit what federal scientists can freely communicate to journalists. TheNaturecriticisms of the Harper government are well-founded. But the problem for science in Canada extends far… Read more
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The Hazards of Fast Science
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
“Pink is the new wire hanger.” In the flurry of tweets that followed in the wake of the debacle between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood, this one was my favorite. It combined two powerful symbols in women’s health–the pink ribbon of the breast cancer movement and the wire hangers used by women to… Read more
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Pink Ribbons, Wire Hangers, and the Politics of Women’s Health
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Three 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 and Monolo, introduced themselves and asked how old I was, where I was from, and how many sisters and brothers I had. Within a few… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Learning to Talk Like a Doctor
Read more
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. The article has provoked a great deal of public attention on blogs and web news sites since its publication in January. Much of this attention… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Why Target National Obesity Rates?
Read more
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. The article has provoked a great deal of public attention on blogs and web news sites since its publication in January. Much of this attention… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Why Target National Obesity Rates?
Read more
Since 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 to 32 percent in 2004. According to some estimates, 41 percent of U.S. adults will be obese by 2015 and 75 percent will be overweight or obese. The… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

A More Ethical Strategy Against Obesity: Changing the Built Environment
Read more
In his article, “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic,” published in the Hastings Center Report, Daniel Callahan posits that obesity is so widespread and embedded in our culture that most if not all efforts to combat it have failed, and failed miserably. Change, in a large and most revolutionary sense, is required, or as he puts it,… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Obesity and Public Health: No Place for Shame
Read more
Nearly everyone agrees that obesity is a significant public health problem in the United States, and nearly everyone agrees that the public health responses to it so far have been disappointing. So what should be done about it? In the January-February issue of the Hastings Center Report, an article by Hastings Center co-founder, senior scholar, and president emeritus… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Controversy in the Hastings Center Report: Responding to an Article on Obesity
Read more
The previously obscure ultra-Orthodox Jewish rite of metzitzah b’peh (oral suction) has burst into the news lately and raised critical questions about genital surgery, consent, First Amendment rights, tradition, and the representation of Jews. I would guess that most Americans, even Jewish-Americans, had never heard of metzitzah b’peh (oral suction) until the recent controversy between ultra-Orthodox Jews… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

Rites and Wrongs: Changing a Ritual from Within
Read more
As any philosopher worth his or her salt can tell you, health insurance is not among the array of topics in Plato’s corpus. Even so, a lesson on citizenship from one of his more famous dialogues, “Crito,” can teach why the insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act ought to make sense to us. In… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

What Can Plato Teach Us About the Health Insurance Mandate?
Read more
A recent editorial in Nature lauds the U.S. government for its efforts to promote open communication between government scientists and journalists, but it condemns the Canadian government for its opposing efforts to limit what federal scientists can freely communicate to journalists. TheNaturecriticisms of the Harper government are well-founded. But the problem for science in Canada extends far… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

The Hazards of Fast Science
Read more
“Pink is the new wire hanger.” In the flurry of tweets that followed in the wake of the debacle between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood, this one was my favorite. It combined two powerful symbols in women’s health–the pink ribbon of the breast cancer movement and the wire hangers used by women to… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
