Bioethics Forum EssayThis Doctor Experimented on Slaves: It’s Time to Remove or Redo His Statue“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu declared to explain the removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans in May. The...Read This Doctor Experimented on Slaves: It’s Time to Remove or Redo His StatueBioethics Forum EssayU.S. Military Medical Ethics Guidelines in LimboAs President Barack Obama’s term comes to a conclusion, various initiatives started under his administration remain unfinished. One of these, the adoption of the recommendations of the Defense Health Board...Read U.S. Military Medical Ethics Guidelines in LimboBioethics Forum EssayAfter Banning Torture, Psychology Association at a CrossroadsThe American Psychological Association (APA) voted at its 2015 meeting to ban psychologists from participating in national security interrogation programs, including torture. The policy change was in response to the public outcry...Read After Banning Torture, Psychology Association at a CrossroadsBioethics Forum EssayModern Day Mengeles“No power in the world will make us deny our duty, or forget even for a moment our historical task of maintaining the freedom of our people.” — Joseph Goebbels...Read Modern Day MengelesBioethics Forum EssayMedicine as a Weapon in Syria and BeyondA recent editorial in The Lancet issued a dire warning to the international medical community: medicine is a weapon of war in Syria. It is just the latest in a series of...Read Medicine as a Weapon in Syria and BeyondBioethics Forum EssayHealth Workers as Pawns of WarfareLast week, NPR reported a major humanitarian group’s decision to stop treating patients from detention centers in Misrata, Libya. According tothe report,“torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought...Read Health Workers as Pawns of Warfare
