Michael J. Murphy
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Resilience and the Twin Medical Catastrophes of War and Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs I sit here in my office at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, my colleagues are experiencing great moral anguish because of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Simultaneously, we are also confronting the Omicron wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The war complicates and burdens health care here and in other border nations exponentially, and especially so in combination with the pandemic.Read the Post
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The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
Read the PostPage“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though it has roots tracing back decades or generations earlier, modern bioethics is widely held to have aris...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Bioethics of Built Health Care Spaces
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An Intervention to Improve Cancer Patients’ Understanding of Early-Phase Clinical Trials
Read the PostIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchThe consent process for human subjects research educates potential participants about research risks, benefits, and procedures so they can make an informed decision about whether to enroll in a clinical trial. Yet numerous studies demonstrate that trial participants sometimes have difficulty distingu...Read the Post
