Hastings Bioethics Forum Archive
The entire Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, beginning with our most recent articles.
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Collecting Migrant Children’s DNA: A Troubling, but Predictable, Trend in the U.S.
July 7, 2025 Read The Article -
Sweet Vindication for Stem Cell Research, and American Science
July 2, 2025 Read The Article -
Doing Right by Family Caregivers During Discharge Planning
June 25, 2025 Read The Article -
Whole Genome Newborn Sequencing Should Not Be a Free-for-all
June 23, 2025 Read The Article -
Flourishing for All
June 17, 2025 Read The Article -
A Clinical Ethicist Reflects on the Life and Death of a Beloved Pet
June 6, 2025 Read The Article -
Pregnancy, Brain Death, and the Right to Choose: Lessons from the Adriana Smith Case
June 3, 2025 Read The Article -
Civil Death: Unethical in 1933 and Today
May 30, 2025 Read The Article -
Whose Child Is She? The Genetics–Gestation Divide
May 29, 2025 Read The Article -
Moving the Needle on Pathogen Sharing and Global Health Equity
May 26, 2025 Read The Article -
The Budget Bill’s Hidden Health Crisis
May 23, 2025 Read The Article -
The Existential Possibilities for Genome Modification of Species
May 15, 2025 Read The Article -
To Make America Healthy Again, Stop Divesting from Science
May 7, 2025 Read The Article -
Bioethics: Back to the USSR?
April 29, 2025 Read The Article -
Turning Lemons into Lemonade: Studying the Emotional Impact of Clinical Ethics Consultation
April 14, 2025 Read The Article -
De-extinction is Here. Now What?
April 10, 2025 Read The Article -
How Bioethicists Can Respond to the Moment by Learning from the Past
April 4, 2025 Read The Article -
Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions
April 1, 2025 Read The Article -
Heavy Metal Bioethics
March 17, 2025 Read The Article -
Terri Schiavo’s Legacy
March 13, 2025 Read The Article -
Courage in Action: Why Bioethicists Must Advocate for Immigrant Patients
March 4, 2025 Read The Article -
Meeting the Needs of Aging Patients with Chronic Mental and Medical Illnesses
February 28, 2025 Read The Article -
Spiritual But Not Religious: Human Experiences Integral to Bioethics
February 13, 2025 Read The Article -
Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It
February 7, 2025 Read The Article -
The Medical Community is Due for an Alcohol Detox
February 3, 2025 Read The Article -
A Secret to Restoring Trust in Vaccines
January 28, 2025 Read The Article -
Why Bioethics Should Welcome Religion
January 25, 2025 Read The Article -
Should Life-Saving Medicine Be Continued for an Unhoused Patient with an Addiction?
January 17, 2025 Read The Article -
Death and the Collapse of our Metaphorical Truths
January 10, 2025 Read The Article -
Jimmy Carter’s Defeat and the Seeds of Hope
January 6, 2025 Read The Article -
What Does AI Jesus Teach Us?
December 20, 2024 Read The Article -
Ethical Considerations for Using AI to Predict Suicide Risk
December 9, 2024 Read The Article -
Now What? Bioethics and Mitigating Climate Disasters
December 2, 2024 Read The Article -
Benjamin Cardozo on Medicine and the Law: Wisdom for Senate Confirmation Hearings
November 22, 2024 Read The Article -
What 23andMe Owes its Users
November 18, 2024 Read The Article -
After the Election, Our Aging Society Will Still Need Care Policy
October 31, 2024 Read The Article -
Do Your Part to Address Climate Change: Vote
October 28, 2024 Read The Article -
The Reactionary Recommendations of Project 2025: Why Bioethicists Should Care
October 24, 2024 Read The Article -
When Bioethics is Like Surfing: Changing Federal Policy
October 22, 2024 Read The Article -
The Alarming History Behind Trump’s “Bad Genes” Comments
October 15, 2024 Read The Article -
Say Their Names: Unclaimed Bodies and Untrustworthiness in Medical Science
October 8, 2024 Read The Article -
Breaking Boundaries: Reframing Clinical Ethics Discussions of Health Care for Incarcerated Patients
September 30, 2024 Read The Article -
Priced Out of Publishing in Bioethics Journals
September 23, 2024 Read The Article -
What Is Preventable About Obesity?
September 16, 2024 Read The Article -
Is Castration of Sex Offenders Ever Ethically Justified?
September 9, 2024 Read The Article -
Ending Medical Gaslighting Requires More than Self-Empowerment
September 3, 2024 Read The Article -
Ending Unequal Treatment Requires A Shift from Inequitable Health Care to Social Inequities
August 13, 2024 Read The Article -
Bioethics Must Address War as a Public Health Crisis
August 8, 2024 Read The Article -
Should an Incarcerated Patient Get an Advanced Heart Therapy?
August 2, 2024 Read The Article -
Bioethicists Should Speak Up Against Facilitated Communication
July 29, 2024 Read The Article -
Was This Job Market Study Ethical?
July 23, 2024 Read The Article -
National Research Act at 50: An Ethics Landmark in Need of an Update
July 12, 2024 Read The Article -
Clinical Ethics and a President’s Capacity: Balancing Privacy and Public Interest
July 11, 2024 Read The Article -
Access to Pediatric Assistive Technology: A Moral Test
July 9, 2024 Read The Article -
Griefbots Are Here, Raising Questions of Privacy and Well-being
July 1, 2024 Read The Article -
Finding the Signal in the Noise on Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care
June 24, 2024 Read The Article -
Should He Have a Vasectomy?
June 18, 2024 Read The Article -
Caring for Patients in Armed Conflict: Narratives from the Front Lines
June 4, 2024 Read The Article -
The Mind is Easy to Penetrate. The Brain, Not So Much
May 30, 2024 Read The Article -
The Overlooked Father of Modern Research Protections
April 29, 2024 Read The Article -
Catastrophe Ethics and Charitable Giving
April 22, 2024 Read The Article -
How to Avoid a Genetic Arms Race
April 16, 2024 Read The Article -
In the Shadow of War: Health Conditions in the Za’atari Refugee Camp
April 11, 2024 Read The Article -
Emerging from the Cacophony of Clinical Ethics Consultation
April 1, 2024 Read The Article -
Financing Reforms to Meet a Pivotal Moment in Global Health
March 25, 2024 Read The Article -
Today’s Politics Threatens Tomorrow’s Reproductive Technologies
March 12, 2024 Read The Article -
A Thousand Double Binds: Alabama, Reproductive Freedom, and Child Health
March 7, 2024 Read The Article -
Fetal Personhood, IVF, and the Negligent Loss of Embryos
March 5, 2024 Read The Article -
It’s Time to Change the Conversation About MAiD
February 22, 2024 Read The Article -
The Neuralink Patient Behind the Musk
February 12, 2024 Read The Article -
SpongeBob, Slime, and Brain Injuries: A Dangerous Combination for Kids
February 8, 2024 Read The Article -
Considering the Duality of Nitrogen
January 29, 2024 Read The Article -
Betty Rollin’s Assisted Death: Unanswered Questions
January 16, 2024 Read The Article -
Unresolved Grief is Eating Away at Us
January 11, 2024 Read The Article -
Balancing a Patient’s Autonomy Against Misinformation
January 8, 2024 Read The Article -
Cold Comfort for Texas Obstetricians
January 2, 2024 Read The Article -
This Wasn’t the Plan: A Family Caregiver’s Recommended Readings from 2023
December 18, 2023 Read The Article -
Texas Supreme Court Offers Roadmap for Legal Abortion
December 15, 2023 Read The Article -
Involuntary Donation: Animal Welfare and Xenotransplantation
December 8, 2023 Read The Article -
Does Calling Severe Anorexia a Terminal Condition Matter?
December 4, 2023 Read The Article -
Newly Released Documents from Untreated Syphilis Study: Ethical, Just, and Respectful Use of Archival Materials
November 27, 2023 Read The Article -
Conscientious Objection and Abortion: Medical Students’ Perspective
November 17, 2023 Read The Article -
The Genetics of Obesity: A New Narrative or the Same Old Story?
November 13, 2023 Read The Article -
Should Your Wedding Plans Include Plasma Donation?
November 3, 2023 Read The Article -
Race, Research, and Bioethics: The Chapatis Studies
October 27, 2023 Read The Article -
Don’t Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimer’s Drugs
October 23, 2023 Read The Article -
Chemical Weapons Convention Reaches Milestone
October 19, 2023 Read The Article -
My Mom’s Myeloma and the Fire-Breathing Chimaera
October 13, 2023 Read The Article -
Improving Linguistic Justice and Accessibility in Bioethics Work
October 6, 2023 Read The Article -
Our System for Reporting Child Abuse is Unethical
September 29, 2023 Read The Article -
Myopic View of Xenotransplantation
September 25, 2023 Read The Article -
To Reduce Maternal Health Disparities, Expand Medicaid
September 14, 2023 Read The Article -
Beyond the Gift of Life: What Else to Expect from an Organ Transplant
September 8, 2023 Read The Article -
Covid is Surging. Most Young Children Are Still Unvaccinated
August 29, 2023 Read The Article -
The Retrievals: Women’s Vulnerability to Injury, Violence, and Pain in Health Care
August 23, 2023 Read The Article -
Involuntary Withdrawal: A Bridge Too Far?
August 21, 2023 Read The Article -
Bartering Your Eggs: A Rotten Deal
August 17, 2023 Read The Article -
New York’s Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Initiative: Positive Signs and a Path Forward
August 14, 2023 Read The Article -
Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Value Judgment Wasn’t the First
July 19, 2023 Read The Article -
The Drama of Medical Ethics: A New Play
July 17, 2023 Read The Article -
Keep Politics Out of State Medical Policy
June 29, 2023 Read The Article -
Hospice and Medical Aid-in-Dying: Addressing an Unethical Disconnect
June 23, 2023 Read The Article -
A Model of Conscientious Objection to Abortion Bans
June 20, 2023 Read The Article -
Honoring My Friend’s Last Words
June 9, 2023 Read The Article -
We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us
June 2, 2023 Read The Article -
Bioethicists and Health Care Institutions Must Act Against Florida’s Anti-Immigrant Law
May 24, 2023 Read The Article -
Medical Interpretation in the U.S. is Inadequate and Harming Patients
May 22, 2023 Read The Article -
Legalized Medical Discrimination Violates Medical Ethics
May 15, 2023 Read The Article -
For Ethical Use of AI in Medicine, Don’t Overlook Maintenance and Repair
May 9, 2023 Read The Article -
Remembering James F. Drane
April 28, 2023 Read The Article -
What Happened to Concerns About Human Enhancement?
April 25, 2023 Read The Article -
Theocracy Is Closer Than It Appears
April 20, 2023 Read The Article -
In Search of an Ethical Constraint on Hospital Revenue
April 14, 2023 Read The Article -
Confusing Equity for Ethics Standards: Where Do We Go from Here?
April 10, 2023 Read The Article -
ChatGPT Just Makes Stuff Up: A Conversation on a Controversial Topic
April 4, 2023 Read The Article -
AI Meets Bioethics Literature: How Did It Do?
March 31, 2023 Read The Article -
Health Equity Without Ethics Perpetuates Marginalization
March 29, 2023 Read The Article -
Where is Clinical Ethics in the Revised Hospital Accreditation Standards?
March 24, 2023 Read The Article -
My Friend ChatGPT: Fun to Talk With, Not Yet to Be Trusted
March 21, 2023 Read The Article -
Should An Unrepresented, Incapacitated Patient Be Treated Over Her Objection?
March 16, 2023 Read The Article -
ChatGPT in the Clinic? Medical AI Needs Ethicists
March 10, 2023 Read The Article -
Is Chinese Bioethics Ready to Move Forward from the CRISPR Baby Scandal?
March 6, 2023 Read The Article -
Enough Already with the Medical Cheap Shots
March 1, 2023 Read The Article -
Is It Ethical to Reduce Prison Sentences in Exchange for Organ Donation?
February 3, 2023 Read The Article -
Quiet Quitting Undermines Human Flourishing
January 30, 2023 Read The Article -
Medical Aid in Dying and Organ Donation: Canada’s Autonomy Gap
January 24, 2023 Read The Article -
Will Gaylin’s Wit, Wisdom, and Kindness
January 18, 2023 Read The Article -
New York City’s Involuntary Commitment Plan: Fulfilling a Moral Obligation?
January 10, 2023 Read The Article -
Advancing Maternal Health Equity with Data Transparency: The Case of Texas
December 16, 2022 Read The Article -
A Warning from China: After the Zero Covid Policy
December 12, 2022 Read The Article -
Grateful Patient Fundraising: Ethically Problematic or Altruistic?
December 6, 2022 Read The Article -
Should He Have Brain Surgery?
November 29, 2022 Read The Article -
Pediatric Gender Care: Absence of Evidence Is Not Absence of Efficacy
November 22, 2022 Read The Article -
The Cure for Politicized Pediatric Gender Care
November 17, 2022 Read The Article -
Moving On from Covid? Immunocompromised People Can’t
November 11, 2022 Read The Article -
Popular Culture and Bioethics: Severance
November 7, 2022 Read The Article -
Should Ethicists Be at the Table in Public Health Policy Deliberations?
October 31, 2022 Read The Article -
Well, There’s Always the Zoo
October 18, 2022 Read The Article -
The CDC’s Misguided Medical Masking Policy
October 13, 2022 Read The Article -
Clicking ‘Accept’ Is Not Informed Consent
October 7, 2022 Read The Article -
How Many Covid-19 Deaths Should We Accept?
October 4, 2022 Read The Article -
The Place in “Aging in Place”: Housing Equity in Late Life
September 30, 2022 Read The Article -
Could Alarm Over Genetic Manipulation Get in the Way of Environmental Conservation?
September 23, 2022 Read The Article -
Philanthropy is Not Enough: Oil and Gas Giants Must Consider Medical Ethics
September 20, 2022 Read The Article -
Requests for Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and Reproductive Justice
September 15, 2022 Read The Article -
Back to School: The Covid Vaccination Choice
September 6, 2022 Read The Article -
Dusting Off Double Effect for the Post-Dobbs Era
August 30, 2022 Read The Article -
Mark Cuban’s Innovative Pharmacy: A Band-Aid on Drug Prices
August 5, 2022 Read The Article -
From Gene-Edited Embryos to Covid: China Faces Regulatory and Ethical Challenges
July 28, 2022 Read The Article -
Public Health Officials and Gun Rights Advocates Must Work Together
July 19, 2022 Read The Article -
Abortion Law—Lessons from Medical Aid-in-Dying?
July 14, 2022 Read The Article -
Primates in Medical Research: A Matter of Convenience, not Sound Science
July 8, 2022 Read The Article -
Experiencing Racism: Health Care Professionals Speak Out
July 6, 2022 Read The Article -
After Roe, What’s Next for End-of-Life Care?
June 29, 2022 Read The Article -
The End of Roe v. Wade Will Be a Nightmare for Disabled Americans
June 24, 2022 Read The Article -
Veterinarians Often Provide Futile Care. Doing So Comes at a Cost
June 21, 2022 Read The Article -
DACA at 10: More, Please
June 14, 2022 Read The Article -
Oncology, Bioethics, and War
June 10, 2022 Read The Article -
Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Threat: Not Exactly What We Meant
May 20, 2022 Read The Article -
California U-Turn on Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren
May 16, 2022 Read The Article -
Bioethics Without Roe
May 10, 2022 Read The Article -
Leaked Supreme Court Opinion, Structural Sexism, and Our Moral Imagination
May 4, 2022 Read The Article -
Aphasia, Communication, and Caregiving
April 18, 2022 Read The Article -
Looking Back 10 Years: How Far Have We Come in Mental Health Care?
April 12, 2022 Read The Article -
Ethical Placemaking for Refugees
April 6, 2022 Read The Article -
MAID Without Borders? Oregon Drops the Residency Requirement
April 1, 2022 Read The Article -
Masks, Values, and a Lesson for Democracy?
March 30, 2022 Read The Article -
Resilience and the Twin Medical Catastrophes of War and Pandemic
March 24, 2022 Read The Article -
Bioethics in the Second Cold War
March 16, 2022 Read The Article -
Child Abuse in Texas
March 14, 2022 Read The Article -
I Was Never “Just” a Visitor
March 9, 2022 Read The Article -
Housing an Aging Society: Five Priorities
March 3, 2022 Read The Article -
Global Health Justice: Now Is the Time
February 23, 2022 Read The Article -
Proposal for Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act
February 18, 2022 Read The Article -
The Winter Olympics and the Doping Ecosystem
February 16, 2022 Read The Article -
Research Ethics Meets the New Marketplace
February 10, 2022 Read The Article -
Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Among Minnesota’s Somali Muslims
January 31, 2022 Read The Article -
The Death of Advance Care Planning is Greatly Exaggerated
January 26, 2022 Read The Article -
Xenotransplantation: Three Areas of Concern
January 19, 2022 Read The Article -
Another Pragmatic Public Health Decision
January 11, 2022 Read The Article -
With Pediatric Hospitalizations Rising, Reconsider Off-Label Covid Vaccination for Young Children
January 7, 2022 Read The Article -
Bioethics in the Margins
January 5, 2022 Read The Article -
Should Clinicians Ask Hospitalized Covid Patients Why They Aren’t Vaccinated?
December 21, 2021 Read The Article -
Vaccination Discrimination Goes Against Nursing Ethics
December 17, 2021 Read The Article -
Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism in Bioethics: Key Takeaways
December 13, 2021 Read The Article -
Studying Covid Vaccines in the Youngest Kids
December 8, 2021 Read The Article -
Omicron, the Legacy of Renée Fox, and the Uncertain Practice of Medicine
December 1, 2021 Read The Article -
Pathogens and Humans
November 26, 2021 Read The Article -
Continuous Health Monitoring: Greater Self-Knowledge or TMI?
November 15, 2021 Read The Article -
Is It Ethical to Prohibit Off-Label Use of Covid-19 Vaccines in Kids?
November 9, 2021 Read The Article -
Vaccine Mandates for Kids: It’s Not Whether, But When
November 2, 2021 Read The Article -
Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive
October 27, 2021 Read The Article -
Should Pro-Choice Advocates Compromise on Abortion?
October 25, 2021 Read The Article -
Polygenic Embryo Screening: Ethical and Legal Considerations
October 20, 2021 Read The Article -
What Warrants Religious Exemption from Covid Vaccine Mandates?
October 4, 2021 Read The Article -
Will Sociogenomics Reduce Social Inequality?
September 30, 2021 Read The Article -
Contemporary Circus Draws on Ethics to Support Diversity
September 27, 2021 Read The Article -
Who Will Be There to Care If There Are No More Nurses?
September 23, 2021 Read The Article -
An Evergreen Metaphor: Strachan Donnelley, Dan Callahan, and Environmental Ethics
September 20, 2021 Read The Article -
The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell–or: Colossal Fantasies
September 16, 2021 Read The Article -
Capitalist Philanthropy and Vaccine Imperialism
September 10, 2021 Read The Article -
Public Reason, Public Schools, and Mask Mandates
September 8, 2021 Read The Article -
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Building Community During Covid
September 1, 2021 Read The Article -
Should Covid Vaccination Status Be Used to Make Triage Decisions?
August 31, 2021 Read The Article -
Fear of Doing Too Much Too Soon or Too Little Too Late: Research on Covid-19
August 20, 2021 Read The Article -
Parents, Covid, and Trauma-Informed Choices
August 17, 2021 Read The Article -
The FDA and the Moral Distinction Between Killing and Letting Die
August 12, 2021 Read The Article -
Vaccine Mandates for Health Care Workers Raise Several Ethical Dilemmas
August 10, 2021 Read The Article -
What Every Prospective Living Kidney Donor Should Know
August 3, 2021 Read The Article -
A Student’s Perspective: Universities Must Require Vaccination
July 30, 2021 Read The Article -
Bioethics Must Resist Attacks on Critical Race Theory
July 28, 2021 Read The Article -
The Great Leap Backward
July 20, 2021 Read The Article -
Covid Doesn’t Justify Cutting Corners on Medical Interpretation
July 16, 2021 Read The Article -
New Regulation for Organ Procurement Will Improve Equity and Save Lives
July 12, 2021 Read The Article -
Quality of Life? Suffering? Covid-19 Intensifies Challenges in Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatment
July 7, 2021 Read The Article -
Revising the Legal Standard for Determining Death
June 17, 2021 Read The Article -
Kidney Donors Should Be Treated Like Philanthropists, Not Like Vendors
June 14, 2021 Read The Article -
Would I Give Aducanumab to My Mother?
June 11, 2021 Read The Article -
What a Bad Day Science Had
June 8, 2021 Read The Article -
Human Embryo Research Beyond 14 Days? International Perspectives
June 7, 2021 Read The Article -
Rugged American Individualism is a Myth, and It’s Killing Us
June 4, 2021 Read The Article -
Covid Vaccine Patent Waivers are for Health Sovereignty
June 1, 2021 Read The Article -
With Legal Challenges to Abortion, Whither Prenatal Diagnosis?
May 27, 2021 Read The Article -
Instead of Vaccine Passports, Let’s Push for Global Justice in Vaccine Access
May 24, 2021 Read The Article -
Covid-19 in Argentina and the Abuse of Bioethics
May 20, 2021 Read The Article -
C.D.C.’s Latest Mask Guidance: Science, Politics, and Public Health
May 18, 2021 Read The Article -
Nope. A Covid-19 Travel Pass isn’t Just like the Yellow Card.
May 13, 2021 Read The Article -
U.S. Organ Donation Needs Better Oversight, but New Rule Will Not Help
May 10, 2021 Read The Article -
Ethical Challenges in Discharge Planning
May 6, 2021 Read The Article -
Should We Enroll Our Child in a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial?
May 3, 2021 Read The Article -
After the Anniversary of Covid, Reckoning with Many New Normals
April 29, 2021 Read The Article -
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Communities? Checking Our Assumptions
April 26, 2021 Read The Article -
Exhortations to Trust Biomedical Experts: What’s Missing?
April 22, 2021 Read The Article -
Vaccinated and Still Isolated: The Ethics of Overprotecting Nursing Home Residents
April 19, 2021 Read The Article -
Beyond “Just Sign Here”–A New Model of Consent for Primary Care
April 15, 2021 Read The Article -
WHO-China Report on Covid: Important Step Forward, More to Be Done
April 9, 2021 Read The Article -
Too Taboo to Contemplate? Refusing Covid Vaccination for Some People with Dementia
April 1, 2021 Read The Article -
A Doctor Confronts the Burden of Judgment during the Pandemic
March 30, 2021 Read The Article -
Thinking Beyond “The Border”: American Bioethics and the Repair of U.S. Immigration Policy
March 26, 2021 Read The Article -
Surrogate Decision-Making for Incarcerated Patients: A Pandemic-Inspired Call to Action
March 24, 2021 Read The Article -
Making Vaccine Appointments Is Tearing Us Apart
March 17, 2021 Read The Article -
How to Make It Right: Covid Reparations
March 15, 2021 Read The Article -
Covid-19 Vaccination Certificates: Prospects and Problems
March 10, 2021 Read The Article -
Undocumented Immigrants and Covid-19 Vaccination
March 8, 2021 Read The Article -
Working Around the System: Vaccine Navigators and Vaccine Equity
March 5, 2021 Read The Article -
Why We Need a Covid-19 Commission
March 3, 2021 Read The Article -
Regulation of Software as a Medical Device: Opportunity for Bioethics
March 1, 2021 Read The Article -
Vaccine Hesitancy Is No Excuse for Systemic Racism
February 25, 2021 Read The Article -
TV Show Depicts Racism in Medicine
February 19, 2021 Read The Article -
Bruce Springsteen: The Latest Celebrity DWI
February 12, 2021 Read The Article -
Science in the Biden White House: Eric Lander, Alondra Nelson, and the Legacy of Lewis Thomas
February 8, 2021 Read The Article -
Islamic Ethics, Covid-19 Vaccination, and the Concept of Harm
February 5, 2021 Read The Article -
Should Covid Vaccination Schedules Deviate from the Status Quo–as a Last Resort?
February 1, 2021 Read The Article -
Efficacy is Relative in a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Next Wave of Covid-19 Vaccines
January 29, 2021 Read The Article -
Ethics Supports Seeking Population Immunity, Not Immunizing Priority Groups
January 26, 2021 Read The Article -
Surprising Surge of Egg Freezing during the Pandemic Raises Ethical Questions
January 21, 2021 Read The Article -
Motivated Ignorance: A Challenge for Science Communication and Democracy
January 19, 2021 Read The Article -
The Bioethics of Built Health Care Spaces
January 13, 2021 Read The Article -
Masks Are Not Created Equal
January 7, 2021 Read The Article -
Ashamed to Be Vaccinated? The Ethics of Health Care Employees Forgoing Unfair Priority
January 5, 2021 Read The Article -
Coronavirus Mutation Panic
December 22, 2020 Read The Article -
Tribute to Robert M. Veatch: Human Rights and Other Commitments
December 21, 2020 Read The Article -
Prioritizing the “1a”: Ethically Allocating Scarce Covid Vaccines to Health Care Workers
December 16, 2020 Read The Article -
Global Allocation of Coronavirus Vaccines
December 12, 2020 Read The Article -
Bioethics, Nazi Analogies, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
December 7, 2020 Read The Article -
Resisting Public Health Measures, Then and Now
December 2, 2020 Read The Article -
A Narrow Path for Optimism that Social Genomics Can Combat Inequality
November 23, 2020 Read The Article -
Human Plasma and Bioethics Nationalism
November 20, 2020 Read The Article -
Three Lessons from Leah
November 18, 2020 Read The Article -
Humanity on the Brink: Narratives of Caregiving and Dementia
November 16, 2020 Read The Article -
The Ethics of Treating the President
November 11, 2020 Read The Article -
The Balloon, the Bicycle, and Al Jonsen
November 4, 2020 Read The Article -
Ethics of Emergency Use Authorization During the Pandemic
October 30, 2020 Read The Article -
Ethics of Placebo Controls in Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
October 27, 2020 Read The Article -
A Historic Intersex Awareness Day
October 26, 2020 Read The Article -
Detention, Dignity, and a Call for Bioethics Advocacy
October 22, 2020 Read The Article -
Caring for My First Neo-Nazi Patient
October 19, 2020 Read The Article -
Amid the Pandemic and Racial Injustice, Greater Empathy in Medical School
October 16, 2020 Read The Article -
Fox, Bosk, and Rothman: An Appreciation of Three Scholars of Medicine
October 13, 2020 Read The Article -
Could the Common Cold Help Stop Covid-19? We Need to Know–Now.
September 28, 2020 Read The Article -
Volunteering for a Covid Vaccine Trial: Fulfilling Hindu Obligations or Fostering Pharmaceutical Company Profits?
September 24, 2020 Read The Article -
Black Women Can’t Breathe
September 17, 2020 Read The Article -
Living through the Pandemic in New Zealand
September 11, 2020 Read The Article -
Fair Compensation for Rare Vaccine Harms
September 9, 2020 Read The Article -
We Can’t Forget the Nation’s Other Epidemic
August 31, 2020 Read The Article -
Are Physicians Hypocrites for Supporting Black Lives Matter Protests and Opposing Anti-Lockdown Protests? An Ethical Analysis
August 27, 2020 Read The Article -
Covid-19 and Deafness: Why the Protocols Fall Short
August 21, 2020 Read The Article -
Did Russia’s Most Influential Bioethicist Get a Coronavirus Vaccine?
August 17, 2020 Read The Article -
Hacking Ventilators in a Pandemic
August 13, 2020 Read The Article -
Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating Bioethics Nationalism?
August 9, 2020 Read The Article -
Black Bioethics and How the Failures of the Profession Paved the Way for Its Existence
August 8, 2020 Read The Article -
When Less-Lethal Weapons Are Lethal: Medicine’s Role in Police Brutality
August 3, 2020 Read The Article -
Against Personal Ventilator Reallocation
July 31, 2020 Read The Article -
Lawsuits of Last Resort: Employees Fight for Safe Workplaces during Covid-19
July 29, 2020 Read The Article -
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A Cause for Celebration During Covid-19?
July 27, 2020 Read The Article -
On Being a Foster Parent During Covid
July 24, 2020 Read The Article -
Pandemic Language
July 21, 2020 Read The Article -
Before We Turn to Digital Contact Tracing for Covid, Remember Surveillance in the Sixties
July 10, 2020 Read The Article -
Covid-19 Makes Clear that Bioethics Must Confront Health Disparities
July 9, 2020 Read The Article -
Ethicists as a Force for Institutional Change and Policies to Promote Equality
July 8, 2020 Read The Article -
Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Limit Abortion
July 6, 2020 Read The Article -
Social-Change Games Can Help Us Understand the Public Health Choices We Face
July 1, 2020 Read The Article -
Accepting the Challenge: Covid Vaccine Challenge Trials Can Be Ethically Justified
June 29, 2020 Read The Article -
Cracks in the System: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic
June 26, 2020 Read The Article -
“If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid
June 24, 2020 Read The Article -
Bringing Ethics into the Global Coronavirus Response
June 22, 2020 Read The Article -
After the Surge: Prioritizing the Backlog of Delayed Hospital Procedures
June 19, 2020 Read The Article -
“You Can See Your Loved One Now.” Can Visitor Restrictions During Covid Unduly Influence End-of-Life Decisions?
June 18, 2020 Read The Article -
Human Challenge Studies for Covid-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and Risks
June 15, 2020 Read The Article -
Committing to Fight Racism
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Measure Twice and Cut Once: The Value of Health Care Ethicists in the Pandemic
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Individual Freedom or Public Health? A False Choice in the Covid Era
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Prioritize Health Care Workers for Ventilators? Not So Fast
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Bioethics and Black Lives: A Call for Bioethics to Speak Against Racial Injustice
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Warp Speed Bioethics
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Clinicians Have a Moral Duty to Care for All Patients–Including Lockdown Protesters
May 28, 2020 Read The Article -
Lessons from Covid-19: Why Treating Sick Patients is Bad Business for Hospitals
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Covid-19 Underscores Racial Disparity in Advance Directives
May 26, 2020 Read The Article -
Report from Sub-Saharan Africa: “When the Health Fundamentals Are Weak, Covid Will Expose You.”
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Post-Covid Bioethics
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Beyond the Covid Crisis—A New Social Contract with Public Health
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Why I Don’t Support Age-Related Rationing During the Covid Pandemic
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#WeAreEssential: Why Disabled People Should Be Appointed to Hospital Triage Committees
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A Covid-19 Side Effect: Virulent Resurgence of Ageism
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Diversity and Solidarity in Response to Covid-19
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Should New Mothers With Covid-19 Be Separated From Their Newborns?
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Why Health Care Workers Should Receive Priority Care for Covid-19
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Sustaining Clinical Empathy During the Pandemic
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Teaching Medical Ethics During the Pandemic
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Show Me Your Passport: Ethical Concerns About Covid-19 Antibody Testing as Key to Reopening Public Life
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Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political
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Ethical Responsibility in Publishing Research Results on Covid-19 Treatments
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Clinical Trials vs. Right to Try: Ethical Use of Chloroquine for Covid-19
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When to Reopen the Nation is an Ethics Question—Not Only a Scientific One
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Religion During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Islamic Bioethical Perspectives
April 27, 2020 Read The Article -
Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery
April 23, 2020 Read The Article -
The Covid Threat No One Is Talking About: Wearing Scrubs in Public
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Denying Ventilators to Covid-19 Patients with Prior DNR Orders is Unethical
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Structural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies
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Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work
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Ethics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for Covid-19
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U.S. and Canada: Being Good Neighbors in the Pandemic
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On Being an Elder in a Pandemic
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When It Comes to Rationing, Disability Rights Law Prohibits More than Prejudice
April 10, 2020 Read The Article -
Why I Support Age-Related Rationing of Ventilators for Covid-19 Patients
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New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Ventilator Allocation Guidelines: How Our Views on Disability Evolved
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The Price of Going Back to Work Too Soon
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Do New York State’s Ventilator Allocation Guidelines Place Chronic Ventilator Users at Risk? Clarification Needed
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Confronting Disability Discrimination During the Pandemic
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Disabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation
April 1, 2020 Read The Article -
Crowdfunding for Covid-Related Needs: Unfair and Inadequate
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We Need International Medical Graduates to Help Fight Covid-19. Immigration Policies Keep Them Away
March 27, 2020 Read The Article -
Flattening the Curve, Then What?
March 23, 2020 Read The Article -
False Hope About Coronavirus Treatments
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COVID-19 and the Global Ethics Freefall
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COVID: Collective of Voices in Distress
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Coronavirus and the Crisis of Trust
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Coronavirus Response Is Insufficient for Vulnerable New Yorkers
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Health Care for Obesity and Eating Disorders: What Needs to Change
February 28, 2020 Read The Article -
Immigrant Health in the Public Charge Era: 15 Essential Articles
February 25, 2020 Read The Article -
Who Decides? Medical Intervention for Transgender and Intersex Children
February 21, 2020 Read The Article -
Globalized Science in a Deglobalizing World
February 17, 2020 Read The Article -
Chinese Bioethicists: Silencing Doctor Impeded Early Control of Coronavirus
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Deciding When Enough is Enough in Providing Life-Sustaining Treatment for a Child
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Why Health Care Organizations Need Technology Ethics Committees
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Report from China: Ethical Questions on the Response to the Coronavirus
January 31, 2020 Read The Article -
Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act: Response to Miller and Nair-Collins
January 29, 2020 Read The Article -
A Responsible Death
January 27, 2020 Read The Article -
An Incoherent Proposal to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
January 23, 2020 Read The Article -
To Restore Humanity in Health Care, Address Clinician Burnout
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What’s Wrong with Virginity Testing?
January 13, 2020 Read The Article -
Transcending Borders in the Ethical Oversight of Human Genome Editing
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Chinese Bioethicists: He Jiankui’s Crime is More than Illegal Medical Practice
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Is Medical Aid in Dying a Human Right? Another View
December 19, 2019 Read The Article -
Quixote Reimagined: Magical Realism Meets the Opioid Epidemic
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Physician-Assisted Death and Journalism Ethics
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Consider the Mouse
December 6, 2019 Read The Article -
Is Medical Aid in Dying a Human Right?
December 3, 2019 Read The Article -
What Is Ethical Eating in the Age of Climate Change?
November 22, 2019 Read The Article -
Not-So-Golden Years for NIH’s Retired Chimpanzees
November 7, 2019 Read The Article -
Immigrant DNA Collection: Fighting Crime or Moral Panic
October 29, 2019 Read The Article -
Citizen Science: Potential Benefits and Ethical Challenges
October 21, 2019 Read The Article -
Hannah Arendt in St. Peter’s Square
October 14, 2019 Read The Article -
Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance
October 10, 2019 Read The Article -
Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault
October 7, 2019 Read The Article -
When Might Human Germline Editing Be Justified?
September 26, 2019 Read The Article -
The Public Charge Rule Is a Eugenic Policy
August 21, 2019 Read The Article -
Why Human Germline Editing Might Never Be Legal in the U.S.
August 9, 2019 Read The Article -
Live-Tweeting About Dying: Last Lessons from Kathy Brandt
August 6, 2019 Read The Article -
Dan Callahan’s Final Interview
July 31, 2019 Read The Article -
What I Learned from Dan Callahan About Bioethics, Writing, and Leadership
July 22, 2019 Read The Article -
Daniel Callahan – A Remembrance
July 19, 2019 Read The Article -
Daniel Callahan: In Memoriam
July 18, 2019 Read The Article -
Teaching Ethics to Adolescents
July 15, 2019 Read The Article -
It’s Unethical to Use Dental X-Rays to Send Migrant Children to Adult Detention Facilities
July 2, 2019 Read The Article -
Living Good and Healthy Lives on a Changing Earth: What Should Bioethics Do?
July 1, 2019 Read The Article -
From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?
June 26, 2019 Read The Article -
Living with Pain and Opioid Addiction: Bioethics Narratives
June 11, 2019 Read The Article -
Is GINA Unjust?
June 6, 2019 Read The Article -
Pursue Public Engagement, but Don’t Expect ‘Broad Societal Consensus’
May 28, 2019 Read The Article -
Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?
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Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health
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Religion, Suffering, and the Physician’s Role
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We Should Be Concerned About Athletes Having to ‘Dope Down’
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Caster Semenya and the Challenges of Sports Brackets
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What’s Wrong with a Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm?
April 19, 2019 Read The Article -
Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal
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Should Feeling Tired of Life Be Grounds for Euthanasia?
April 11, 2019 Read The Article -
Why Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?
April 3, 2019 Read The Article -
Moratorium on Human Genome Editing: Time to Get It Right
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#MeToo and Health Research Ethics
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What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
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The Hastings Center at 50: Looking Back and Ahead
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Chinese Bioethicists Respond to the Case of He Jiankui
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Scientists Disagree About the Ethics and Governance of Human Germline Editing
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Prevention Optimism: Does It Raise Ethical Questions about PrEP for HIV?
January 15, 2019 Read The Article -
He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 3: What Are the Major Ethical Issues?
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Calling on Doctors to Take the Lead in Fighting for Gun Control
December 19, 2018 Read The Article -
Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun Violence
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He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 2: How Different Are Chinese and Western Bioethics?
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He Jiankui: A Sorry Tale of High-Stakes Science
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CRISPR in China: Why Did the Parents Give Consent?
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He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure: Why Him? Why China?
December 5, 2018 Read The Article -
Should We Edit the Human Germline? Is Consensus Possible or Even Desirable?
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Three Ethical Reasons for Vaccinating your Children
November 19, 2018 Read The Article -
Bathroom Bioethics
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Old Jews
October 29, 2018 Read The Article -
What I Practice: Democratic Medicine
October 10, 2018 Read The Article -
Doping, Corruption, and International Intrigue: Olympic Sport Confronts a Moral Crisis
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Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory Tower
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Wrongful Death Suits for Frozen Embryos: A Bad Idea
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England’s Abortion Law Catches Up
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Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia
September 6, 2018 Read The Article -
Avoiding Dementia, Causing Moral Distress
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Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule
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Inside a High School Bioethics Club
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Newspaper Op-Eds Should Disclose Authors’ Industry Ties
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Jahi McMath, Race, and Bioethics
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Envisioning Civic Palliative Care
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Addyi Rises Again
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Social Media, Privacy, and Research: A Muddled Landscape
July 9, 2018 Read The Article -
Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children
July 5, 2018 Read The Article -
What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?
July 2, 2018 Read The Article -
A Single-Payer Bubble?
June 28, 2018 Read The Article -
Love and Boundaries in Medicine
June 22, 2018 Read The Article -
Migrants’ Lives, Immigration Policy, and Ethics Work
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Do You Want the Police Snooping in Your DNA?
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Shocking the Conscience: Justice Department versus the Health of Immigrant Women and Children
June 12, 2018 Read The Article -
The Only PhD Scientist in Congress Speaks About Truth, Politics, and Human Flourishing
June 11, 2018 Read The Article -
Trumping Drug Costs
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Addressing Questions About DTC Genetic Tests and Privacy
June 4, 2018 Read The Article -
Might Chimpanzees Have Legal Rights?
May 30, 2018 Read The Article -
Is it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?
May 18, 2018 Read The Article -
Should Doctors Treat Family Members?
May 11, 2018 Read The Article -
Hawaii’s New End-of-Life Law: Do the Additional Safeguards Withstand Scrutiny?
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Navigating Ethics Review of Human Infection Trials With Zika
April 30, 2018 Read The Article -
Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
April 27, 2018 Read The Article -
Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ Donation
April 23, 2018 Read The Article -
Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?
April 19, 2018 Read The Article -
Organ Donation and Transplantation in the U.S.: 50 Years of Success, Strategies for Improvement
April 11, 2018 Read The Article -
The Need for Open and High Quality Preclinical Science
April 6, 2018 Read The Article -
“No one was listening to us.” Lessons from the Jahi McMath Case
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Gun Violence, Shame, and Social Change
March 30, 2018 Read The Article -
Chimpanzees: Persons or Things?
March 28, 2018 Read The Article -
Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights
March 22, 2018 Read The Article -
Does the Future Belong to Assisted Death?
March 19, 2018 Read The Article -
Being Poor Is a Full-Time Job
March 14, 2018 Read The Article -
Lena Dunham’s Lesson for Doctors
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Reproductive Freedom: The More Things Change . . .
March 2, 2018 Read The Article -
Breastfeeding and Transgender Women
February 21, 2018 Read The Article -
Vive la Bioéthique? France’s Bioethics Initiative
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Natural, Medical, Political Childbirth
January 31, 2018 Read The Article -
After Hurricane Harvey, Injustice in Houston
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A New Mind-Body Problem
January 10, 2018 Read The Article -
Improving Ethics at the Bedside
January 2, 2018 Read The Article -
Is Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Eugenic?
December 13, 2017 Read The Article -
Cancer and Fertility: Learning from Survivors
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Ethical Supervision?
November 27, 2017 Read The Article -
Medicine, Morals, and Female Genital Cutting
November 15, 2017 Read The Article -
When Are Organ Recipients Human Research Subjects?
November 10, 2017 Read The Article -
Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Genetically Enhance our Children?
October 31, 2017 Read The Article -
A Call for Medical Students to Learn the Full Story about the “Father of Gynecology”
October 5, 2017 Read The Article -
Fix the Planet, or Change the Creatures In It?
September 27, 2017 Read The Article -
Is it Ethical for Scientists to Create Nonhuman Primates with Brain Disorders?
September 25, 2017 Read The Article -
Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
September 12, 2017 Read The Article -
International Sharing of Biological Specimens and Health Data: A Gap in the Consent Process?
August 30, 2017 Read The Article -
Being a Good Doctor When Patients Fear Deportation: Lessons for Future Physicians
August 21, 2017 Read The Article -
On Sims’s Legacy: Work for Bioethics
August 17, 2017 Read The Article -
What’s Truly Outrageous About Intersex?
August 15, 2017 Read The Article -
Removing the Stigma from “Stigmatopin” to Help Curb Opioid Dependence
August 11, 2017 Read The Article -
This Doctor Experimented on Slaves: It’s Time to Remove or Redo His Statue
August 7, 2017 Read The Article -
When Pat and Bob Nearly Saved Health Care Reform: A Lesson in Senatorial Bedside Manner
July 28, 2017 Read The Article -
Charlie Gard, Compassionate Use, and Single-Payer Health Care
July 26, 2017 Read The Article -
“The Handmaid’s Tale” and Modern-Day Surrogacy
July 13, 2017 Read The Article -
Is There a Duty to Participate in Biospecimen Research?
July 6, 2017 Read The Article -
Should We Stop Having Children?
July 5, 2017 Read The Article -
Masked Marketing: Pharmaceutical Company Funding of ADHD Patient Advocacy Groups
June 29, 2017 Read The Article -
Fake News: A Role for Neuroethics?
June 22, 2017 Read The Article -
The Score is Even
June 14, 2017 Read The Article -
The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion
June 6, 2017 Read The Article -
Has Physician-Assisted Death Become the “Good Death?”
May 30, 2017 Read The Article -
Who “Persists” in Opposing DNR Orders? Demographics Matter
May 18, 2017 Read The Article -
The Value of Bioethics Against Authoritarian Populism
May 16, 2017 Read The Article -
Morally Indefensible Health Care Bills
May 9, 2017 Read The Article -
Health Reform and Competing Visions of Justice
May 7, 2017 Read The Article -
Gene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight Mechanisms
May 4, 2017 Read The Article -
A Right to Seek Payment for One’s Tissue
April 28, 2017 Read The Article -
How Can Research with Prisoners Be Done Ethically? Q&A with Charles Lidz
April 20, 2017 Read The Article -
OrthoKantics
April 18, 2017 Read The Article -
How “America First” Undermines Our Health
April 10, 2017 Read The Article -
Bioethics’ Best Response to Populist Polemics: Sticking to Its Roots
April 6, 2017 Read The Article -
The Symbolic Value of the Bioethics and Populism Debate
April 5, 2017 Read The Article -
Preventing Sex-Selective Abortions in America: A Solution in Search of a Problem
April 4, 2017 Read The Article -
Continuing the Dialogue on Bioethics and Populism
March 31, 2017 Read The Article -
Should Bioethics Respond to Authoritarian Populism?
March 29, 2017 Read The Article -
Neil Gorsuch, Aid in Dying, and Roe v. Wade
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A Doctor’s Dilemma: A Case of Two “Right” Answers
March 15, 2017 Read The Article -
Engineering Consensus in the Development of Genome Editing Policy
March 14, 2017 Read The Article -
Is Death in Trouble?
March 2, 2017 Read The Article -
New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
February 27, 2017 Read The Article -
Human Gene Editing Report: Moving Forward Incrementally
February 14, 2017 Read The Article -
Common Rule Revisions: Impact of Public Comment, and What’s Next?
February 8, 2017 Read The Article -
The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
February 7, 2017 Read The Article -
The Nebulous Ethics of Human Germline Gene Editing
January 23, 2017 Read The Article -
Missing from NIH Primate Research Ethics Review: the Ethics
January 20, 2017 Read The Article -
Undocumented Patients in the Local Safety-Net: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Practice
January 19, 2017 Read The Article -
Insights from Fictional Research Subjects
January 11, 2017 Read The Article -
The 21st Century Cures Act Sparks Values Debate
December 22, 2016 Read The Article -
Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration
December 19, 2016 Read The Article -
Public Health under the Trump Administration
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A Trump Bioethics Commission?
November 10, 2016 Read The Article -
After the Election Bioethics Faces a Rocky Road
November 9, 2016 Read The Article -
Shortcomings of the Revised “Helsinki Declaration” on Ethical Use of Health Databases
November 2, 2016 Read The Article -
Telemedicine Needs Ethical Guidelines
October 26, 2016 Read The Article -
The Era of the Motherless Embryo Just Got a Lot Closer
October 20, 2016 Read The Article -
EpiPens and the Sale of Fear
October 7, 2016 Read The Article -
The Challenge of High Drug Prices in the U.S.
October 5, 2016 Read The Article -
Being at Two with Nature and Mosquitoes
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“Testing in the East”: An Episode in Cold War Bioethics
September 21, 2016 Read The Article -
Imperfect Solutions to Driverless Car Dilemmas
September 14, 2016 Read The Article -
Why EpiPen Prices Are No Shock
September 13, 2016 Read The Article -
Experiments on Nonhuman Primates: Q & A with Anne Barnhill
September 12, 2016 Read The Article -
Hastings, Botswana, and Edinburgh: Bioethics Meets Detective Fiction
September 7, 2016 Read The Article -
Public Comment: Should NIH Fund Research on Human-Animal Chimeras?
August 30, 2016 Read The Article -
EpiPen Furor: Patient Groups Take Money, Stay Mum
August 29, 2016 Read The Article -
The Real Story Behind the Goldwater Rule
August 26, 2016 Read The Article -
Challenging Evolution?
July 22, 2016 Read The Article -
Sweet Grapes at the End of Life
July 7, 2016 Read The Article -
Driverless Cars: Can There Be a Moral Algorithm?
July 5, 2016 Read The Article -
Bioethics after Brexit
June 30, 2016 Read The Article -
Lincoln’s Promise: Congress, Veterans, and Traumatic Brain Injury
June 21, 2016 Read The Article -
Gene Drive Technology: Lessons of the Atomic Bomb
June 15, 2016 Read The Article -
Making Big Data Inclusive
June 3, 2016 Read The Article -
Use of Estimated Data Should Require Informed Consent
May 27, 2016 Read The Article -
Reframing Conscientious Care: Q&A with Mara Buchbinder
May 13, 2016 Read The Article -
U.S. Military Medical Ethics Guidelines in Limbo
May 3, 2016 Read The Article -
What’s Behind Gender Panic in the Restroom?
April 25, 2016 Read The Article -
Questions About Using “Mosaic” Embryos in IVF
April 22, 2016 Read The Article -
Canada Backpedals on Medical Aid in Dying
April 20, 2016 Read The Article -
Pharmaceutical Transparency Bills: What’s the Real Purpose?
April 15, 2016 Read The Article -
Do Documentaries Have to Tell the Truth?
April 14, 2016 Read The Article -
On Living to 100 or More
April 6, 2016 Read The Article -
Bathroom Bills, Bigotry, and Bioethics
March 31, 2016 Read The Article -
Singapore Case Notes: In the Community, Who is Ethics Education For?
March 22, 2016 Read The Article -
The Good of the Body
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Canada Marches toward Expansive Aid in Dying
March 2, 2016 Read The Article -
Read the Fine Print Before Sending Your Spit to 23andMe
February 26, 2016 Read The Article -
A FIRST-rate Oversight, and Other Problems with Studies of Medical Residents’ Work Hours
February 23, 2016 Read The Article -
El agua no es potabo: Immigration and Public Health Policy in Flint
February 17, 2016 Read The Article -
Responding to Zika: Ethical Challenges of Zoonotic Diseases
January 29, 2016 Read The Article -
Right to Try Laws and the Power of Stories
January 27, 2016 Read The Article -
Apple and Google Plan to Reinvent Health Care. Should We Worry?
January 26, 2016 Read The Article -
Could DTC Genome Testing Exacerbate Research Inequities?
January 20, 2016 Read The Article -
The Supreme Court and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
January 19, 2016 Read The Article -
Response to Call for Essays: Social Media for Genetic Research
November 10, 2015 Read The Article -
The Case for Expanding Physician-Assisted Death to Psychiatric Conditions
November 4, 2015 Read The Article -
Fresh Territory for Bioethics: Silicon Valley
October 28, 2015 Read The Article -
Ethics at the Chocolate Factory
October 22, 2015 Read The Article -
A Body With Bullet Holes and the Right to Arm Ourselves
October 12, 2015 Read The Article -
Making an Example of Martin Shkreli
October 6, 2015 Read The Article -
After Banning Torture, Psychology Association at a Crossroads
September 28, 2015 Read The Article -
DarkCo Petroceuticals, Angelic Solar Panels, and the SUPPORT Study
September 16, 2015 Read The Article -
Assisted-Dying Provisions: California Legislature Says Yes, the U.K. Says No
September 14, 2015 Read The Article -
The Medical Humanity of Oliver Sacks: In His Own Words
September 10, 2015 Read The Article -
The SUPPORT Study Case: Not Vindication
September 10, 2015 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Fostering Transparency and Inclusivity
September 3, 2015 Read The Article -
Are Arguments about GMO Safety Really About Something Else?
August 28, 2015 Read The Article -
Banning Abortion for Down Syndrome: Legal or Ethical Justification?
August 26, 2015 Read The Article -
Ethics, Optics, and Medicine as Work: Backstage at Planned Parenthood
July 31, 2015 Read The Article -
Reasonable Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood
July 29, 2015 Read The Article -
Beyond the “Silver Tsunami”: Toward an Ethic for Aging Societies
July 21, 2015 Read The Article -
On a Radioactive Pig and Pope Francis
July 20, 2015 Read The Article -
From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation
July 14, 2015 Read The Article -
California’s Strides in Providing Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants
July 13, 2015 Read The Article -
After the Supreme Court Decision on Lethal Injection Drug, More Questions
July 5, 2015 Read The Article -
Supreme Court Decision in King v Burwell: Backstory and Next Steps
June 26, 2015 Read The Article -
Rats Have Empathy, But What About the Scientists Who Experiment on Them?
June 24, 2015 Read The Article -
When Words Matter: Medical Education and the Care of Transgender Patients
June 16, 2015 Read The Article -
Why College Students Use Cognitive Enhancers: It’s Not Only about Grades
June 3, 2015 Read The Article -
Why New Zealand Should Permit Aid in Dying
June 1, 2015 Read The Article -
New in Skin Care: Natural and GMO
May 6, 2015 Read The Article -
Federal Recommendations on Use of Cognitive Enhancers
April 20, 2015 Read The Article -
Sex, Consent, and Dementia
April 15, 2015 Read The Article -
Suing for Justice? More on the U.S. STD Studies in Guatemala
April 3, 2015 Read The Article -
Sacred versus Synthetic? Nature Preservationism and Biotechnology
April 3, 2015 Read The Article -
A Moratorium on Gene Editing?
March 27, 2015 Read The Article -
DNA Phenotyping and Baby’s First Portrait
March 20, 2015 Read The Article -
The Drug that Cried “Feminism”
March 17, 2015 Read The Article -
Students and Professors Pay Tribute to John D. Arras
March 16, 2015 Read The Article -
New York City’s Compromise on Dangerous Circumcision Practice Leaves Infants at Risk
March 5, 2015 Read The Article -
Cognition Enhancement and Technological Unemployment
March 2, 2015 Read The Article -
Lessons from Ebola: Presidential Bioethics Commission Releases Recommendations on Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies
February 27, 2015 Read The Article -
Measles, Vaccination, and the Tragedy of the Commons
February 25, 2015 Read The Article -
Vaccine Exemptions and the Church-State Problem
February 23, 2015 Read The Article -
GM Mosquitoes: Risks and Emotions
February 20, 2015 Read The Article -
Dying: Closing the Gap between What We Know and What We Do
February 19, 2015 Read The Article -
Altering Nature to Preserve It
February 6, 2015 Read The Article -
Controlling the End Game of Dementia
February 3, 2015 Read The Article -
Have a Miscarriage and Go to Jail? Potential Consequences of Personhood Amendments
January 27, 2015 Read The Article -
Don’t Categorically Refuse CPR to Ebola Patients
January 15, 2015 Read The Article -
Modern Day Mengeles
January 12, 2015 Read The Article -
OHRP’s Dangerous Draft Guidance
December 21, 2014 Read The Article -
Two Cheers for Choosing Wisely
December 18, 2014 Read The Article -
Trapper’s Care in the Animal ER and Frank Talk about Costs
December 5, 2014 Read The Article -
How Brittany Maynard Changed the Conversation about Aid in Dying
December 1, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Health Care Professionals’ Obligations to Provide Care
November 7, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Misplaced Police Powers
November 4, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: The Question of Quarantine
October 28, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Questions about Resuscitation
October 10, 2014 Read The Article -
New York City’s Innovative Approach to Helping Unaccompanied Minors
October 8, 2014 Read The Article -
Synthetic Biology: A Study in Reinvention
September 25, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Retrofitting Governance Systems
September 18, 2014 Read The Article -
Just Published Hastings Center Report Highlights “Teaching Bioethics”
September 17, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Organizational Ethics, Frontline Perspectives
September 9, 2014 Read The Article -
FDA Proposal for Regulating Laboratory Diagnostics Could Improve Patient Care
September 4, 2014 Read The Article -
Responding to Ebola: Selected Commentaries on Key Ethical Questions
August 22, 2014 Read The Article -
The FDA Proposes Roadblocks to Laboratory Diagnostics
August 19, 2014 Read The Article -
More French Paradoxes
August 8, 2014 Read The Article -
Facebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research Ethics
July 21, 2014 Read The Article -
Nature Isn’t What It Used To Be
July 17, 2014 Read The Article -
The VA Crisis is Fundamentally an Ethics Crisis
July 15, 2014 Read The Article -
Hobby Lobby Decision Likely to Increase Health Care Inequity
July 8, 2014 Read The Article -
Alzheimer’s Disease, Biomarkers, and Suicide: Why We Need to Think About All Three Together
July 7, 2014 Read The Article -
What Do We Owe to Child Migrants?
June 24, 2014 Read The Article -
Chronicling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Through Art
June 12, 2014 Read The Article -
A Medical Student’s Call for Action Against Research Misconduct
June 3, 2014 Read The Article -
How I Learned Bioethics in Medical School
May 28, 2014 Read The Article -
LEGGO the Logo? Why Pharma Logos Belong on CME
May 19, 2014 Read The Article -
The Latest Challenge to Health Privacy: Health Care Consolidation
May 13, 2014 Read The Article -
A Decade’s Worth of Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, in Hindsight
April 23, 2014 Read The Article -
Genetic Testing in Torts Litigation – Justice or Injustice?
April 18, 2014 Read The Article -
Despite the Risks, and Because of Them, the FDA Should Permit Recycling Medical Implants
April 15, 2014 Read The Article -
What Role Should Bioethics Play in Global Health?
April 11, 2014 Read The Article -
A Blood Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s the Elephant in the Room?
April 7, 2014 Read The Article -
Borderline Disorder: Medical Personnel and Law Enforcement
April 3, 2014 Read The Article -
Synthetic Chromosomes
March 28, 2014 Read The Article -
How Bioethicists Can Help Reduce Global Health Inequities
March 25, 2014 Read The Article -
New York’s Measles Outbreak: Take Off Your Shoes and Roll Up Your Sleeve
March 19, 2014 Read The Article -
What’s at Stake with Genetically Modified Organisms
February 25, 2014 Read The Article -
Truvada: No Substitute for Responsible Sex
February 14, 2014 Read The Article -
De-Extinction: Could Technology Save Nature?
February 7, 2014 Read The Article -
Bioethics and the Dogma of “Brain Death”
February 3, 2014 Read The Article -
Orphans to History: A Response to the Bucharest Early Intervention Project Investigators
January 29, 2014 Read The Article -
“Health Care as Hospitality”: Organizational Ethics in a Migrant Health Clinic
January 28, 2014 Read The Article -
Genetic Information Is Not Always Benign
January 24, 2014 Read The Article -
New Recommendations for Research with Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity
January 13, 2014 Read The Article -
Rounding Up Scientific Journals
January 10, 2014 Read The Article -
An ICU Nurse Discusses Brain Death
January 3, 2014 Read The Article -
Bloomberg, Nannying, and the Symbolic Value of Food Choice
December 20, 2013 Read The Article -
Bloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?
December 16, 2013 Read The Article -
Canada Confronts its Own “Tuskegee” Studies
December 9, 2013 Read The Article -
U.K.’s Landmark Case on Withholding Treatment Affirms the Importance of Patients’ Values
December 3, 2013 Read The Article -
Romanian Orphans Study: A Bioethicist Responds to Ethical Concerns
November 22, 2013 Read The Article -
Why Health Plan Cancellations Do Not Mean Failure for ACA
November 19, 2013 Read The Article -
Romanian Orphans Study: Investigators Respond to Ethical Questions
November 5, 2013 Read The Article -
In Search of Sterility
November 1, 2013 Read The Article -
Bioethics Books in Brief
October 29, 2013 Read The Article -
The Push for Data Transparency and Implications for Research
October 24, 2013 Read The Article -
Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends
October 18, 2013 Read The Article -
Romanian Orphans: A Reconsideration of the Ethics of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
October 15, 2013 Read The Article -
Doctors Googling Patients
October 8, 2013 Read The Article -
New Bioethics Education Resources: Read about Them Here; Find Them When the Government Shutdown Is Over
October 2, 2013 Read The Article -
“Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” – Reason to Help, or Blame, the Poor?
September 26, 2013 Read The Article -
Charging Smokers Higher Health Insurance Rates: Is it Ethical?
September 19, 2013 Read The Article -
Support for Returning Results of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Research
August 28, 2013 Read The Article -
The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDS
July 26, 2013 Read The Article -
As Chimp Research is Phased Out, Will Other Animal Research Decline?
July 9, 2013 Read The Article -
“Undocumented Doctors” and the Health of the Dreamers
July 2, 2013 Read The Article -
Dozens of Bioethicists Air Views on SUPPORT Study Controversy
July 1, 2013 Read The Article -
Sports Concussions and Sandbagging
June 28, 2013 Read The Article -
Touching History
June 24, 2013 Read The Article -
SUPPORT Update: OHRP’s Compliance Actions on Hold
June 5, 2013 Read The Article -
The SUPPORT Study and the Standard of Care
May 21, 2013 Read The Article -
Public Citizen: The SUPPORT Study was Even Worse than We Thought
May 21, 2013 Read The Article -
Public Citizen and Misinformed Consent in Neonatal Intensive Care
May 16, 2013 Read The Article -
Learning to Talk Like a Doctor
May 13, 2013 Read The Article -
Getting from “is” to “ought” Near the End of Life
May 7, 2013 Read The Article -
Is Five Hours Too Short to Say Goodbye? My Dad’s Rapid Autopsy
May 1, 2013 Read The Article -
Shame and Guilt in Minnesota
April 24, 2013 Read The Article -
OHRP and Public Citizen Are Wrong about Neonatal Research on Oxygen Therapy
April 18, 2013 Read The Article -
What if the Patient is Your Mother?
April 1, 2013 Read The Article -
A Peaceful Death or a Risk to People with Disabilities?
March 19, 2013 Read The Article -
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
March 11, 2013 Read The Article -
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
March 11, 2013 Read The Article -
A More Ethical Strategy Against Obesity: Changing the Built Environment
February 25, 2013 Read The Article -
Goldilocks and the Three Hospice Patients
February 19, 2013 Read The Article -
Euthanasia in Belgium: The Untold Story
February 11, 2013 Read The Article -
Obesity and Public Health: No Place for Shame
January 30, 2013 Read The Article -
Controversy in the Hastings Center Report: Responding to an Article on Obesity
January 25, 2013 Read The Article -
Rites and Wrongs: Changing a Ritual from Within
January 11, 2013 Read The Article -
Why Is Ethics Too Often Playing Catch Up?
January 2, 2013 Read The Article -
Medical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of Us
December 20, 2012 Read The Article -
Unexpected Lessons from the Anatomy Lab
December 14, 2012 Read The Article -
Givers Beware: Medical Charities and Deceptive Fundraising
December 10, 2012 Read The Article -
Why Hospitals Should Go Greener
December 5, 2012 Read The Article -
Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Challenges for Bioethics
November 26, 2012 Read The Article -
Ethically Impossible: New Educational Tools
November 15, 2012 Read The Article -
When Cutting Mental Health Spending Means Passing the Buck
November 14, 2012 Read The Article -
Ethics and the Storm
November 9, 2012 Read The Article -
The Choice Bazaar
November 5, 2012 Read The Article -
Your Brain in the Courtroom
October 24, 2012 Read The Article -
Time to Change FDA’s Discriminatory Blood Donation Policy
October 17, 2012 Read The Article -
Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants: A Family Issue
October 12, 2012 Read The Article -
For a Survivor, it’s Not Easy Being Pink
October 9, 2012 Read The Article -
The Presidential Bioethics Debate 2012
October 3, 2012 Read The Article -
Syria’s War Against Medicine
September 27, 2012 Read The Article -
Take Our Poll: The Facebook Effect on Organ Donation
September 20, 2012 Read The Article -
Conscientious Objection and Undocumented Migrants in Spain
September 17, 2012 Read The Article -
Ritual Circumcision: Ban Metzitzah b’peh
September 5, 2012 Read The Article -
The Flip-flop over Foreskin
August 28, 2012 Read The Article -
Can Social Media Increase Transplant Donation and Save Lives?
August 24, 2012 Read The Article -
Robot and Frank, and Maybe Me
August 23, 2012 Read The Article -
Low-T, High Profit?
August 20, 2012 Read The Article -
“End of Life,” Value Judgments, and Ending Lives
August 6, 2012 Read The Article -
Disability Discrimination: The Author Responds
July 27, 2012 Read The Article -
Research Bias Compromises Chimpanzee Protection Efforts
July 24, 2012 Read The Article -
Disability Discrimination: A Doctor’s View
July 19, 2012 Read The Article -
Disability Discrimination: Risky Business for “Consenting” Adults
July 16, 2012 Read The Article -
Disability Discrimination
July 11, 2012 Read The Article -
Health Care Reform: How to Fail
June 22, 2012 Read The Article -
Electronic Health Records: Balancing Progress and Privacy
June 19, 2012 Read The Article -
The Minimalist as Maximalist: Food Ethics and Workers’ Rights
June 13, 2012 Read The Article -
The Tough-Minded and the Tender-Minded
June 12, 2012 Read The Article -
The Difficult Child of Medical Progress
June 5, 2012 Read The Article -
“You Can Refuse This”
June 2, 2012 Read The Article -
Anthrax Vaccine Trials for Children: Precautionary or Premature?
May 22, 2012 Read The Article -
“Doing Bioethics” in Pakistan
May 18, 2012 Read The Article -
Arizona’s Ultrasound Mandate, Abortion, and the War on Women
May 16, 2012 Read The Article -
Nurse Practitioners: One Answer to the Nation’s Primary Care Shortage
May 8, 2012 Read The Article -
If We’re Going to Talk About My Reproductive Future . . .
May 3, 2012 Read The Article -
Are Canadian Fertility Services Breaking the Law?
May 1, 2012 Read The Article -
The Death of a Pet: A Glimpse into the Human Future
April 25, 2012 Read The Article -
What Can Plato Teach Us About the Health Insurance Mandate?
April 23, 2012 Read The Article -
TEDMED 2012: Great Expectations
April 17, 2012 Read The Article -
Ethics, Advocacy, and Euphemisms
April 4, 2012 Read The Article -
What is an Ounce of Prevention Really Worth?
April 2, 2012 Read The Article -
Why Shame Won’t Stop Obesity
March 28, 2012 Read The Article -
Carefully Precautionary about Synthetic Biology?
March 22, 2012 Read The Article -
The Hazards of Fast Science
March 20, 2012 Read The Article -
Pink Ribbons, Wire Hangers, and the Politics of Women’s Health
March 1, 2012 Read The Article -
Medicine as a Weapon in Syria and Beyond
February 27, 2012 Read The Article -
Justified Restrictions on Religious Freedom
February 22, 2012 Read The Article -
A Lesson from the Contraception Coverage Uproar? Rethink Employer-Based Insurance
February 17, 2012 Read The Article -
The Trial of “Death by Medicine”: An Interview with Lisa Krieger
February 13, 2012 Read The Article -
Kafkaesque and Dickensian: The Human Subjects Protection Maze
February 9, 2012 Read The Article -
Health Workers as Pawns of Warfare
February 3, 2012 Read The Article -
Obama’s Unspoken Words About Health Reform and Values
January 26, 2012 Read The Article -
“Beware the Ides of March” 2.0
January 18, 2012 Read The Article -
It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid
January 11, 2012 Read The Article -
The Ethical Imperialism of Moral Science
January 4, 2012 Read The Article -
Good News for Chimpanzees in U.S. Labs
December 15, 2011 Read The Article -
X Marks Evolution: The Benefits of the “Indeterminate Sex” Passport Designator
December 7, 2011 Read The Article -
Geron’s Discontinued Stem Cell Trial: What About the Research Participants?
December 2, 2011 Read The Article -
New Hope for Detecting Consciousness in Vegetative Patients: Ethical Implications
November 29, 2011 Read The Article -
Administration Reveals Lack of CLASS
November 15, 2011 Read The Article -
“M,” Polly, and the Right to Die
October 12, 2011 Read The Article -
Australia’s Passport to Gender Confusion
September 28, 2011 Read The Article -
On Naming Names
May 24, 2011 Read The Article -
Blotto, Not Beautiful, Medicine
May 16, 2011 Read The Article -
Freedom’s Just Another Word for . . . Restriction?
April 27, 2011 Read The Article -
Dr. Oz Can’t Afford Me
April 22, 2011 Read The Article -
Dying for Some Standards: Broken Medical Systems as Revealed by a New FDA Warning
March 21, 2011 Read The Article -
Time for the American Anthropological Association to Apologize
March 1, 2011 Read The Article -
The Tale of Tea with Jim the Third
February 14, 2011 Read The Article -
Pink Boys with Puppy Dog Tails
December 6, 2010 Read The Article -
Attenuated Thoughts
November 19, 2010 Read The Article -
Nationalizing IRBs for Biomedical Research – and for Justice
October 22, 2010 Read The Article -
Walk it Off, Crybaby
October 13, 2010 Read The Article -
After the Media Frenzy, Preventing Another ‘Guatemala’
October 6, 2010 Read The Article -
Legal but Unethical: Who Works on That?
September 17, 2010 Read The Article -
The Other July Effect: Tribalism in Medicine
August 19, 2010 Read The Article -
Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?
June 29, 2010 Read The Article -
Bad Vibrations
June 16, 2010 Read The Article -
Prenatal Dex: Update and Omnibus Reply
March 18, 2010 Read The Article -
Of Kinks, Crimes, and Kinds: The Paraphilias Proposal for the DSM-5
February 19, 2010 Read The Article -
Fetal Cosmetology
February 8, 2010 Read The Article -
Intersex and Sports: Back to the Same Old Game
January 22, 2010 Read The Article -
Attention Shoppers: LBGTQ Rights Apparently Not Worth $6.67 to the American Psychological Association
December 29, 2009 Read The Article -
Does the NFL Need PETA?
October 1, 2009 Read The Article -
Medicine Needs a Declaration of Independence from Cosmetic Procedures
July 6, 2009 Read The Article -
The Next President’s Council on Bioethics: Who Cares What It Does?
June 30, 2009 Read The Article -
How and Why to Take “Gender Identity Disorder” Out of the DSM
June 22, 2009 Read The Article -
When Endemic Disparities Catch the Pandemic Flu: Echoes of Kubler-Ross and Rawls
April 30, 2009 Read The Article -
Children at all Costs?
February 18, 2009 Read The Article -
Womb Gay
December 4, 2008 Read The Article -
The American Medical Association’s Apology in Context: The Need for Restoration
October 14, 2008 Read The Article -
Footnote to a Footnote: On Roving Medicine
October 9, 2008 Read The Article -
The Vulnerable Researcher and the IRB
October 3, 2008 Read The Article -
Sex Is Good
August 22, 2008 Read The Article -
Olympic Problems with Sex Testing
July 31, 2008 Read The Article -
The AMA’s Apology: What’s the Benefit?
July 21, 2008 Read The Article -
Deceptive Market Practices in the Marketplace of Ideas
June 27, 2008 Read The Article -
Belief in a Just World: A Case Study in Public Health Ethics
May 14, 2008 Read The Article -
Lavish Dwarf Entertainment
March 25, 2008 Read The Article -
ES Cells and iPS Cells: A Distinction with a Difference
March 4, 2008 Read The Article -
Selective Parenting
October 23, 2007 Read The Article -
When HIPAA Hurts
September 5, 2007 Read The Article -
Liberty Should Win: We May Choose Our Children’s Sexual Orientation
June 27, 2007 Read The Article -
Liberty and Solidarity: May We Choose Children for Sexual Orientation?
June 20, 2007 Read The Article -
Products of Conception
April 9, 2007 Read The Article -
The Perils of Embryo Banking?
January 19, 2007 Read The Article -
Ashley and the Dangerous Myth of the Selfless Parent
January 18, 2007 Read The Article -
Really Changing Sex
November 8, 2006 Read The Article -
Explaining More, Doing Less
October 13, 2006 Read The Article -
So You’re a Scholar Who Wants to Make Things Happen
September 13, 2006 Read The Article -
The Federal Marriage Amendment and the New One Drop of Blood Rule
June 8, 2006 Read The Article -
Taking People at Their Word
May 25, 2006 Read The Article -
The Secret Life of the Lunesta Butterfly
May 3, 2006 Read The Article -
Something Is Actually Happening: Are Bioethicists Doing the Right Stuff?
April 12, 2006 Read The Article -
Proof that I Like Penises
March 10, 2006 Read The Article
