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Could the Common Cold Help Stop Covid-19? We Need to Know–Now.
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September 28, 2020
Volunteering for a Covid Vaccine Trial: Fulfilling Hindu Obligations or Fostering Pharmaceutical Company Profits?
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September 24, 2020
Black Women Can’t Breathe
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September 17, 2020
Living through the Pandemic in New Zealand
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September 11, 2020
Fair Compensation for Rare Vaccine Harms
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September 9, 2020
We Can’t Forget the Nation’s Other Epidemic
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August 31, 2020
Are Physicians Hypocrites for Supporting Black Lives Matter Protests and Opposing Anti-Lockdown Protests? An Ethical Analysis
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August 27, 2020
Covid-19 and Deafness: Why the Protocols Fall Short
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August 21, 2020
Did Russia’s Most Influential Bioethicist Get a Coronavirus Vaccine?
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August 17, 2020
Hacking Ventilators in a Pandemic
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August 13, 2020
Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating Bioethics Nationalism?
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August 9, 2020
Black Bioethics and How the Failures of the Profession Paved the Way for Its Existence
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August 8, 2020
When Less-Lethal Weapons Are Lethal: Medicine’s Role in Police Brutality
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August 3, 2020
Against Personal Ventilator Reallocation
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July 31, 2020
Lawsuits of Last Resort: Employees Fight for Safe Workplaces during Covid-19
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July 29, 2020
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A Cause for Celebration During Covid-19?
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July 27, 2020
On Being a Foster Parent During Covid
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July 24, 2020
Pandemic Language
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July 21, 2020
Before We Turn to Digital Contact Tracing for Covid, Remember Surveillance in the Sixties
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July 10, 2020
Covid-19 Makes Clear that Bioethics Must Confront Health Disparities
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July 9, 2020
Ethicists as a Force for Institutional Change and Policies to Promote Equality
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July 8, 2020
Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Limit Abortion
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July 6, 2020
Social-Change Games Can Help Us Understand the Public Health Choices We Face
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July 1, 2020
Accepting the Challenge: Covid Vaccine Challenge Trials Can Be Ethically Justified
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June 29, 2020
Cracks in the System: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic
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June 26, 2020
“If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid
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June 24, 2020
Bringing Ethics into the Global Coronavirus Response
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June 22, 2020
After the Surge: Prioritizing the Backlog of Delayed Hospital Procedures
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June 19, 2020
“You Can See Your Loved One Now.” Can Visitor Restrictions During Covid Unduly Influence End-of-Life Decisions?
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June 18, 2020
Human Challenge Studies for Covid-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and Risks
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June 15, 2020
Committing to Fight Racism
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June 11, 2020
Measure Twice and Cut Once: The Value of Health Care Ethicists in the Pandemic
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June 10, 2020
Individual Freedom or Public Health? A False Choice in the Covid Era
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June 9, 2020
Prioritize Health Care Workers for Ventilators? Not So Fast
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June 8, 2020
Bioethics and Black Lives: A Call for Bioethics to Speak Against Racial Injustice
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June 3, 2020
Warp Speed Bioethics
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June 1, 2020
Clinicians Have a Moral Duty to Care for All Patients–Including Lockdown Protesters
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May 28, 2020
Lessons from Covid-19: Why Treating Sick Patients is Bad Business for Hospitals
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May 28, 2020
Covid-19 Underscores Racial Disparity in Advance Directives
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May 26, 2020
Report from Sub-Saharan Africa: “When the Health Fundamentals Are Weak, Covid Will Expose You.”
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May 22, 2020
Post-Covid Bioethics
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May 20, 2020
Beyond the Covid Crisis—A New Social Contract with Public Health
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May 19, 2020
Why I Don’t Support Age-Related Rationing During the Covid Pandemic
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May 18, 2020
#WeAreEssential: Why Disabled People Should Be Appointed to Hospital Triage Committees
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May 15, 2020
A Covid-19 Side Effect: Virulent Resurgence of Ageism
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May 14, 2020
Diversity and Solidarity in Response to Covid-19
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May 13, 2020
Should New Mothers With Covid-19 Be Separated From Their Newborns?
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May 11, 2020
Why Health Care Workers Should Receive Priority Care for Covid-19
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May 8, 2020
Sustaining Clinical Empathy During the Pandemic
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May 7, 2020
Teaching Medical Ethics During the Pandemic
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May 6, 2020
Show Me Your Passport: Ethical Concerns About Covid-19 Antibody Testing as Key to Reopening Public Life
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May 5, 2020
Ethical Medicine Means Getting Political
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May 4, 2020
Ethical Responsibility in Publishing Research Results on Covid-19 Treatments
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April 30, 2020
Clinical Trials vs. Right to Try: Ethical Use of Chloroquine for Covid-19
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April 29, 2020
When to Reopen the Nation is an Ethics Question—Not Only a Scientific One
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April 28, 2020
Religion During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Islamic Bioethical Perspectives
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April 27, 2020
Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery
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April 23, 2020
The Covid Threat No One Is Talking About: Wearing Scrubs in Public
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April 22, 2020
Denying Ventilators to Covid-19 Patients with Prior DNR Orders is Unethical
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April 21, 2020
Structural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies
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April 20, 2020
Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work
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April 16, 2020
Ethics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for Covid-19
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April 15, 2020
U.S. and Canada: Being Good Neighbors in the Pandemic
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April 14, 2020
On Being an Elder in a Pandemic
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April 13, 2020
When It Comes to Rationing, Disability Rights Law Prohibits More than Prejudice
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April 10, 2020
Why I Support Age-Related Rationing of Ventilators for Covid-19 Patients
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April 9, 2020
New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Ventilator Allocation Guidelines: How Our Views on Disability Evolved
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April 7, 2020
The Price of Going Back to Work Too Soon
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April 6, 2020
Do New York State’s Ventilator Allocation Guidelines Place Chronic Ventilator Users at Risk? Clarification Needed
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April 3, 2020
Confronting Disability Discrimination During the Pandemic
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April 2, 2020
Disabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation
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April 1, 2020
Crowdfunding for Covid-Related Needs: Unfair and Inadequate
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March 30, 2020
We Need International Medical Graduates to Help Fight Covid-19. Immigration Policies Keep Them Away
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March 27, 2020
Flattening the Curve, Then What?
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March 23, 2020
False Hope About Coronavirus Treatments
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March 20, 2020
COVID-19 and the Global Ethics Freefall
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March 19, 2020
COVID: Collective of Voices in Distress
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March 13, 2020
Coronavirus and the Crisis of Trust
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March 12, 2020
Coronavirus Response Is Insufficient for Vulnerable New Yorkers
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March 4, 2020
Health Care for Obesity and Eating Disorders: What Needs to Change
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February 28, 2020
Immigrant Health in the Public Charge Era: 15 Essential Articles
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February 25, 2020
Who Decides? Medical Intervention for Transgender and Intersex Children
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February 21, 2020
Globalized Science in a Deglobalizing World
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February 17, 2020
Chinese Bioethicists: Silencing Doctor Impeded Early Control of Coronavirus
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February 13, 2020
Deciding When Enough is Enough in Providing Life-Sustaining Treatment for a Child
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February 10, 2020
Why Health Care Organizations Need Technology Ethics Committees
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February 5, 2020
Report from China: Ethical Questions on the Response to the Coronavirus
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January 31, 2020
Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act: Response to Miller and Nair-Collins
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January 29, 2020
A Responsible Death
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January 27, 2020
An Incoherent Proposal to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
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January 23, 2020
To Restore Humanity in Health Care, Address Clinician Burnout
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January 16, 2020
What’s Wrong with Virginity Testing?
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January 13, 2020
Transcending Borders in the Ethical Oversight of Human Genome Editing
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January 8, 2020
Chinese Bioethicists: He Jiankui’s Crime is More than Illegal Medical Practice
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January 4, 2020
Is Medical Aid in Dying a Human Right? Another View
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December 19, 2019
Quixote Reimagined: Magical Realism Meets the Opioid Epidemic
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December 16, 2019
Physician-Assisted Death and Journalism Ethics
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December 10, 2019
Consider the Mouse
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December 6, 2019
Is Medical Aid in Dying a Human Right?
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December 3, 2019
What Is Ethical Eating in the Age of Climate Change?
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November 22, 2019
Not-So-Golden Years for NIH’s Retired Chimpanzees
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November 7, 2019
Immigrant DNA Collection: Fighting Crime or Moral Panic
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October 29, 2019
Citizen Science: Potential Benefits and Ethical Challenges
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October 21, 2019
Hannah Arendt in St. Peter’s Square
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October 14, 2019
Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance
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October 10, 2019
Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault
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October 7, 2019
When Might Human Germline Editing Be Justified?
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September 26, 2019
The Public Charge Rule Is a Eugenic Policy
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August 21, 2019
Why Human Germline Editing Might Never Be Legal in the U.S.
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August 9, 2019
Live-Tweeting About Dying: Last Lessons from Kathy Brandt
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August 6, 2019
Dan Callahan’s Final Interview
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July 31, 2019
What I Learned from Dan Callahan About Bioethics, Writing, and Leadership
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July 22, 2019
Daniel Callahan – A Remembrance
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July 19, 2019
Daniel Callahan: In Memoriam
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July 18, 2019
Teaching Ethics to Adolescents
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July 15, 2019
It’s Unethical to Use Dental X-Rays to Send Migrant Children to Adult Detention Facilities
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July 2, 2019
Living Good and Healthy Lives on a Changing Earth: What Should Bioethics Do?
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July 1, 2019
From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?
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June 26, 2019
Living with Pain and Opioid Addiction: Bioethics Narratives
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June 11, 2019
Is GINA Unjust?
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June 6, 2019
Pursue Public Engagement, but Don’t Expect ‘Broad Societal Consensus’
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May 28, 2019
Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?
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May 20, 2019
Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health
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May 16, 2019
Religion, Suffering, and the Physician’s Role
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May 11, 2019
We Should Be Concerned About Athletes Having to ‘Dope Down’
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May 7, 2019
Caster Semenya and the Challenges of Sports Brackets
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May 3, 2019
What’s Wrong with a Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm?
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April 19, 2019
Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal
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April 15, 2019
Should Feeling Tired of Life Be Grounds for Euthanasia?
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April 11, 2019
Why Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?
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April 3, 2019
Moratorium on Human Genome Editing: Time to Get It Right
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March 29, 2019
#MeToo and Health Research Ethics
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March 8, 2019
What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
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February 19, 2019
The Hastings Center at 50: Looking Back and Ahead
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February 13, 2019
Chinese Bioethicists Respond to the Case of He Jiankui
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February 7, 2019
Scientists Disagree About the Ethics and Governance of Human Germline Editing
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January 17, 2019
Prevention Optimism: Does It Raise Ethical Questions about PrEP for HIV?
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January 15, 2019
He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 3: What Are the Major Ethical Issues?
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January 10, 2019
Calling on Doctors to Take the Lead in Fighting for Gun Control
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December 19, 2018
Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun Violence
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December 17, 2018
He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 2: How Different Are Chinese and Western Bioethics?
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December 13, 2018
He Jiankui: A Sorry Tale of High-Stakes Science
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December 10, 2018
CRISPR in China: Why Did the Parents Give Consent?
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December 7, 2018
He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure: Why Him? Why China?
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December 5, 2018
Should We Edit the Human Germline? Is Consensus Possible or Even Desirable?
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December 4, 2018
Three Ethical Reasons for Vaccinating your Children
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November 19, 2018
Bathroom Bioethics
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November 9, 2018
Old Jews
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October 29, 2018
What I Practice: Democratic Medicine
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October 10, 2018
Doping, Corruption, and International Intrigue: Olympic Sport Confronts a Moral Crisis
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October 5, 2018
Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory Tower
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September 20, 2018
Wrongful Death Suits for Frozen Embryos: A Bad Idea
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September 12, 2018
England’s Abortion Law Catches Up
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September 10, 2018
Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia
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September 6, 2018
Avoiding Dementia, Causing Moral Distress
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September 3, 2018
Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule
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August 24, 2018
Inside a High School Bioethics Club
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August 10, 2018
Newspaper Op-Eds Should Disclose Authors’ Industry Ties
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July 24, 2018
Jahi McMath, Race, and Bioethics
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July 19, 2018
Envisioning Civic Palliative Care
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July 16, 2018
Addyi Rises Again
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July 11, 2018
Social Media, Privacy, and Research: A Muddled Landscape
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July 9, 2018
Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children
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July 5, 2018
What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?
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July 2, 2018
A Single-Payer Bubble?
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June 28, 2018
Love and Boundaries in Medicine
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June 22, 2018
Migrants’ Lives, Immigration Policy, and Ethics Work
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June 20, 2018
Do You Want the Police Snooping in Your DNA?
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June 15, 2018
Shocking the Conscience: Justice Department versus the Health of Immigrant Women and Children
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June 12, 2018
The Only PhD Scientist in Congress Speaks About Truth, Politics, and Human Flourishing
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June 11, 2018
Trumping Drug Costs
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June 6, 2018
Addressing Questions About DTC Genetic Tests and Privacy
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June 4, 2018
Might Chimpanzees Have Legal Rights?
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May 30, 2018
Is it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?
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May 18, 2018
Should Doctors Treat Family Members?
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May 11, 2018
Hawaii’s New End-of-Life Law: Do the Additional Safeguards Withstand Scrutiny?
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May 4, 2018
Navigating Ethics Review of Human Infection Trials With Zika
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April 30, 2018
Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
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April 27, 2018
Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ Donation
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April 23, 2018
Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?
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April 19, 2018
Organ Donation and Transplantation in the U.S.: 50 Years of Success, Strategies for Improvement
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April 11, 2018
The Need for Open and High Quality Preclinical Science
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April 6, 2018
“No one was listening to us.” Lessons from the Jahi McMath Case
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April 4, 2018
Gun Violence, Shame, and Social Change
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March 30, 2018
Chimpanzees: Persons or Things?
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March 28, 2018
Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights
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March 22, 2018
Does the Future Belong to Assisted Death?
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March 19, 2018
Being Poor Is a Full-Time Job
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March 14, 2018
Lena Dunham’s Lesson for Doctors
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March 8, 2018
Reproductive Freedom: The More Things Change . . .
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March 2, 2018
Breastfeeding and Transgender Women
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February 21, 2018
Vive la Bioéthique? France’s Bioethics Initiative
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February 2, 2018
Natural, Medical, Political Childbirth
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January 31, 2018
After Hurricane Harvey, Injustice in Houston
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January 19, 2018
A New Mind-Body Problem
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January 10, 2018
Improving Ethics at the Bedside
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January 2, 2018
Is Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Eugenic?
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December 13, 2017
Cancer and Fertility: Learning from Survivors
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December 6, 2017
Ethical Supervision?
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November 27, 2017
Medicine, Morals, and Female Genital Cutting
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November 15, 2017
When Are Organ Recipients Human Research Subjects?
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November 10, 2017
Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Genetically Enhance our Children?
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October 31, 2017
A Call for Medical Students to Learn the Full Story about the “Father of Gynecology”
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October 5, 2017
Fix the Planet, or Change the Creatures In It?
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September 27, 2017
Is it Ethical for Scientists to Create Nonhuman Primates with Brain Disorders?
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September 25, 2017
Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
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September 12, 2017
International Sharing of Biological Specimens and Health Data: A Gap in the Consent Process?
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August 30, 2017
Being a Good Doctor When Patients Fear Deportation: Lessons for Future Physicians
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August 21, 2017
On Sims’s Legacy: Work for Bioethics
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August 17, 2017
What’s Truly Outrageous About Intersex?
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August 15, 2017
Removing the Stigma from “Stigmatopin” to Help Curb Opioid Dependence
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August 11, 2017
This Doctor Experimented on Slaves: It’s Time to Remove or Redo His Statue
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August 7, 2017
When Pat and Bob Nearly Saved Health Care Reform: A Lesson in Senatorial Bedside Manner
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July 28, 2017
Charlie Gard, Compassionate Use, and Single-Payer Health Care
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July 26, 2017
“The Handmaid’s Tale” and Modern-Day Surrogacy
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July 13, 2017
Is There a Duty to Participate in Biospecimen Research?
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July 6, 2017
Should We Stop Having Children?
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July 5, 2017
Masked Marketing: Pharmaceutical Company Funding of ADHD Patient Advocacy Groups
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June 29, 2017
Fake News: A Role for Neuroethics?
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June 22, 2017
The Score is Even
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June 14, 2017
The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion
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June 6, 2017
Has Physician-Assisted Death Become the “Good Death?”
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May 30, 2017
Who “Persists” in Opposing DNR Orders? Demographics Matter
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May 18, 2017
The Value of Bioethics Against Authoritarian Populism
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May 16, 2017
Morally Indefensible Health Care Bills
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May 9, 2017
Health Reform and Competing Visions of Justice
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May 7, 2017
Gene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight Mechanisms
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May 4, 2017
A Right to Seek Payment for One’s Tissue
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April 28, 2017
How Can Research with Prisoners Be Done Ethically? Q&A with Charles Lidz
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April 20, 2017
OrthoKantics
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April 18, 2017
How “America First” Undermines Our Health
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April 10, 2017
Bioethics’ Best Response to Populist Polemics: Sticking to Its Roots
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April 6, 2017
The Symbolic Value of the Bioethics and Populism Debate
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April 5, 2017
Preventing Sex-Selective Abortions in America: A Solution in Search of a Problem
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April 4, 2017
Continuing the Dialogue on Bioethics and Populism
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March 31, 2017
Should Bioethics Respond to Authoritarian Populism?
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March 29, 2017
Neil Gorsuch, Aid in Dying, and Roe v. Wade
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March 24, 2017
A Doctor’s Dilemma: A Case of Two “Right” Answers
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March 15, 2017
Engineering Consensus in the Development of Genome Editing Policy
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March 14, 2017
Is Death in Trouble?
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March 2, 2017
New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
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February 27, 2017
Human Gene Editing Report: Moving Forward Incrementally
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February 14, 2017
Common Rule Revisions: Impact of Public Comment, and What’s Next?
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February 8, 2017
The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
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February 7, 2017
The Nebulous Ethics of Human Germline Gene Editing
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January 23, 2017
Missing from NIH Primate Research Ethics Review: the Ethics
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January 20, 2017
Undocumented Patients in the Local Safety-Net: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Practice
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January 19, 2017
Insights from Fictional Research Subjects
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January 11, 2017
The 21st Century Cures Act Sparks Values Debate
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December 22, 2016
Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration
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December 19, 2016
Public Health under the Trump Administration
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December 16, 2016
A Trump Bioethics Commission?
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November 10, 2016
After the Election Bioethics Faces a Rocky Road
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November 9, 2016
Shortcomings of the Revised “Helsinki Declaration” on Ethical Use of Health Databases
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November 2, 2016
Telemedicine Needs Ethical Guidelines
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October 26, 2016
The Era of the Motherless Embryo Just Got a Lot Closer
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October 20, 2016
EpiPens and the Sale of Fear
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October 7, 2016
The Challenge of High Drug Prices in the U.S.
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October 5, 2016
Being at Two with Nature and Mosquitoes
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October 4, 2016
“Testing in the East”: An Episode in Cold War Bioethics
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September 21, 2016
Imperfect Solutions to Driverless Car Dilemmas
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September 14, 2016
Why EpiPen Prices Are No Shock
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September 13, 2016
Experiments on Nonhuman Primates: Q & A with Anne Barnhill
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September 12, 2016
Hastings, Botswana, and Edinburgh: Bioethics Meets Detective Fiction
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September 7, 2016
Public Comment: Should NIH Fund Research on Human-Animal Chimeras?
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August 30, 2016
EpiPen Furor: Patient Groups Take Money, Stay Mum
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August 29, 2016
The Real Story Behind the Goldwater Rule
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August 26, 2016
Challenging Evolution?
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July 22, 2016
Sweet Grapes at the End of Life
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July 7, 2016
Driverless Cars: Can There Be a Moral Algorithm?
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July 5, 2016
Bioethics after Brexit
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June 30, 2016
Lincoln’s Promise: Congress, Veterans, and Traumatic Brain Injury
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June 21, 2016
Gene Drive Technology: Lessons of the Atomic Bomb
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June 15, 2016
Making Big Data Inclusive
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June 3, 2016
Use of Estimated Data Should Require Informed Consent
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May 27, 2016
Reframing Conscientious Care: Q&A with Mara Buchbinder
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May 13, 2016
U.S. Military Medical Ethics Guidelines in Limbo
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May 3, 2016
What’s Behind Gender Panic in the Restroom?
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April 25, 2016
Questions About Using “Mosaic” Embryos in IVF
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April 22, 2016
Canada Backpedals on Medical Aid in Dying
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April 20, 2016
Pharmaceutical Transparency Bills: What’s the Real Purpose?
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April 15, 2016
Do Documentaries Have to Tell the Truth?
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April 14, 2016
On Living to 100 or More
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April 6, 2016
Bathroom Bills, Bigotry, and Bioethics
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March 31, 2016
Singapore Case Notes: In the Community, Who is Ethics Education For?
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March 22, 2016
The Good of the Body
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March 10, 2016
Canada Marches toward Expansive Aid in Dying
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March 2, 2016
Read the Fine Print Before Sending Your Spit to 23andMe
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February 26, 2016
A FIRST-rate Oversight, and Other Problems with Studies of Medical Residents’ Work Hours
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February 23, 2016
El agua no es potabo: Immigration and Public Health Policy in Flint
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February 17, 2016
Responding to Zika: Ethical Challenges of Zoonotic Diseases
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January 29, 2016
Right to Try Laws and the Power of Stories
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January 27, 2016
Apple and Google Plan to Reinvent Health Care. Should We Worry?
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January 26, 2016
Could DTC Genome Testing Exacerbate Research Inequities?
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January 20, 2016
The Supreme Court and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
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January 19, 2016
Response to Call for Essays: Social Media for Genetic Research
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November 10, 2015
The Case for Expanding Physician-Assisted Death to Psychiatric Conditions
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November 4, 2015
Fresh Territory for Bioethics: Silicon Valley
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October 28, 2015
Ethics at the Chocolate Factory
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October 22, 2015
A Body With Bullet Holes and the Right to Arm Ourselves
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October 12, 2015
Making an Example of Martin Shkreli
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October 6, 2015
After Banning Torture, Psychology Association at a Crossroads
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September 28, 2015
DarkCo Petroceuticals, Angelic Solar Panels, and the SUPPORT Study
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September 16, 2015
Assisted-Dying Provisions: California Legislature Says Yes, the U.K. Says No
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September 14, 2015
The Medical Humanity of Oliver Sacks: In His Own Words
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September 10, 2015
The SUPPORT Study Case: Not Vindication
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September 10, 2015
Responding to Ebola: Fostering Transparency and Inclusivity
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September 3, 2015
Are Arguments about GMO Safety Really About Something Else?
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August 28, 2015
Banning Abortion for Down Syndrome: Legal or Ethical Justification?
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August 26, 2015
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ES Cells and iPS Cells: A Distinction with a Difference
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When HIPAA Hurts
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Liberty Should Win: We May Choose Our Children’s Sexual Orientation
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