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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
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
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
Ethics, Optics, and Medicine as Work: Backstage at Planned Parenthood
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July 31, 2015
Reasonable Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood
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July 29, 2015
Beyond the “Silver Tsunami”: Toward an Ethic for Aging Societies
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July 21, 2015
On a Radioactive Pig and Pope Francis
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July 20, 2015
From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation
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July 14, 2015
California’s Strides in Providing Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants
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July 13, 2015
After the Supreme Court Decision on Lethal Injection Drug, More Questions
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July 5, 2015
Supreme Court Decision in King v Burwell: Backstory and Next Steps
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June 26, 2015
Rats Have Empathy, But What About the Scientists Who Experiment on Them?
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June 24, 2015
When Words Matter: Medical Education and the Care of Transgender Patients
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June 16, 2015
Why College Students Use Cognitive Enhancers: It’s Not Only about Grades
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June 3, 2015
Why New Zealand Should Permit Aid in Dying
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June 1, 2015
New in Skin Care: Natural and GMO
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May 6, 2015
Federal Recommendations on Use of Cognitive Enhancers
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April 20, 2015
Sex, Consent, and Dementia
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April 15, 2015
Suing for Justice? More on the U.S. STD Studies in Guatemala
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April 3, 2015
Sacred versus Synthetic? Nature Preservationism and Biotechnology
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April 3, 2015
A Moratorium on Gene Editing?
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March 27, 2015
DNA Phenotyping and Baby’s First Portrait
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March 20, 2015
The Drug that Cried “Feminism”
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March 17, 2015
Students and Professors Pay Tribute to John D. Arras
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March 16, 2015
New York City’s Compromise on Dangerous Circumcision Practice Leaves Infants at Risk
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March 5, 2015
Cognition Enhancement and Technological Unemployment
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March 2, 2015
Lessons from Ebola: Presidential Bioethics Commission Releases Recommendations on Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies
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February 27, 2015
Measles, Vaccination, and the Tragedy of the Commons
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February 25, 2015
Vaccine Exemptions and the Church-State Problem
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February 23, 2015
GM Mosquitoes: Risks and Emotions
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February 20, 2015
Dying: Closing the Gap between What We Know and What We Do
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February 19, 2015
Altering Nature to Preserve It
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February 6, 2015
Controlling the End Game of Dementia
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February 3, 2015
Have a Miscarriage and Go to Jail? Potential Consequences of Personhood Amendments
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January 27, 2015
Don’t Categorically Refuse CPR to Ebola Patients
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January 15, 2015
Modern Day Mengeles
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January 12, 2015
OHRP’s Dangerous Draft Guidance
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December 21, 2014
Two Cheers for Choosing Wisely
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December 18, 2014
Trapper’s Care in the Animal ER and Frank Talk about Costs
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December 5, 2014
How Brittany Maynard Changed the Conversation about Aid in Dying
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December 1, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Health Care Professionals’ Obligations to Provide Care
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November 7, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Misplaced Police Powers
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November 4, 2014
Responding to Ebola: The Question of Quarantine
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October 28, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Questions about Resuscitation
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October 10, 2014
New York City’s Innovative Approach to Helping Unaccompanied Minors
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October 8, 2014
Synthetic Biology: A Study in Reinvention
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September 25, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Retrofitting Governance Systems
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September 18, 2014
Just Published Hastings Center Report Highlights “Teaching Bioethics”
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September 17, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Organizational Ethics, Frontline Perspectives
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September 9, 2014
FDA Proposal for Regulating Laboratory Diagnostics Could Improve Patient Care
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September 4, 2014
Responding to Ebola: Selected Commentaries on Key Ethical Questions
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August 22, 2014
The FDA Proposes Roadblocks to Laboratory Diagnostics
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August 19, 2014
More French Paradoxes
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August 8, 2014
Facebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research Ethics
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July 21, 2014
Nature Isn’t What It Used To Be
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July 17, 2014
The VA Crisis is Fundamentally an Ethics Crisis
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July 15, 2014
Hobby Lobby Decision Likely to Increase Health Care Inequity
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July 8, 2014
Alzheimer’s Disease, Biomarkers, and Suicide: Why We Need to Think About All Three Together
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July 7, 2014
What Do We Owe to Child Migrants?
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June 24, 2014
Chronicling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Through Art
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June 12, 2014
A Medical Student’s Call for Action Against Research Misconduct
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June 3, 2014
How I Learned Bioethics in Medical School
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May 28, 2014
LEGGO the Logo? Why Pharma Logos Belong on CME
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May 19, 2014
The Latest Challenge to Health Privacy: Health Care Consolidation
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May 13, 2014
A Decade’s Worth of Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, in Hindsight
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April 23, 2014
Genetic Testing in Torts Litigation – Justice or Injustice?
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April 18, 2014
Despite the Risks, and Because of Them, the FDA Should Permit Recycling Medical Implants
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April 15, 2014
What Role Should Bioethics Play in Global Health?
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April 11, 2014
A Blood Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s the Elephant in the Room?
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April 7, 2014
Borderline Disorder: Medical Personnel and Law Enforcement
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April 3, 2014
Synthetic Chromosomes
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March 28, 2014
How Bioethicists Can Help Reduce Global Health Inequities
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March 25, 2014
New York’s Measles Outbreak: Take Off Your Shoes and Roll Up Your Sleeve
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March 19, 2014
What’s at Stake with Genetically Modified Organisms
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February 25, 2014
Truvada: No Substitute for Responsible Sex
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February 14, 2014
De-Extinction: Could Technology Save Nature?
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February 7, 2014
Bioethics and the Dogma of “Brain Death”
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February 3, 2014
Orphans to History: A Response to the Bucharest Early Intervention Project Investigators
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January 29, 2014
“Health Care as Hospitality”: Organizational Ethics in a Migrant Health Clinic
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January 28, 2014
Genetic Information Is Not Always Benign
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January 24, 2014
New Recommendations for Research with Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity
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January 13, 2014
Rounding Up Scientific Journals
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January 10, 2014
An ICU Nurse Discusses Brain Death
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January 3, 2014
Bloomberg, Nannying, and the Symbolic Value of Food Choice
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December 20, 2013
Bloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?
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December 16, 2013
Canada Confronts its Own “Tuskegee” Studies
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December 9, 2013
U.K.’s Landmark Case on Withholding Treatment Affirms the Importance of Patients’ Values
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December 3, 2013
Romanian Orphans Study: A Bioethicist Responds to Ethical Concerns
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November 22, 2013
Why Health Plan Cancellations Do Not Mean Failure for ACA
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November 19, 2013
Romanian Orphans Study: Investigators Respond to Ethical Questions
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November 5, 2013
In Search of Sterility
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November 1, 2013
Bioethics Books in Brief
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October 29, 2013
The Push for Data Transparency and Implications for Research
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October 24, 2013
Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends
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October 18, 2013
Romanian Orphans: A Reconsideration of the Ethics of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
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October 15, 2013
Doctors Googling Patients
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October 8, 2013
New Bioethics Education Resources: Read about Them Here; Find Them When the Government Shutdown Is Over
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October 2, 2013
“Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” – Reason to Help, or Blame, the Poor?
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September 26, 2013
Charging Smokers Higher Health Insurance Rates: Is it Ethical?
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September 19, 2013
Support for Returning Results of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Research
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August 28, 2013
The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDS
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July 26, 2013
As Chimp Research is Phased Out, Will Other Animal Research Decline?
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July 9, 2013
“Undocumented Doctors” and the Health of the Dreamers
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July 2, 2013
Dozens of Bioethicists Air Views on SUPPORT Study Controversy
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July 1, 2013
Sports Concussions and Sandbagging
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June 28, 2013
Touching History
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June 24, 2013
SUPPORT Update: OHRP’s Compliance Actions on Hold
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June 5, 2013
The SUPPORT Study and the Standard of Care
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May 21, 2013
Public Citizen: The SUPPORT Study was Even Worse than We Thought
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May 21, 2013
Public Citizen and Misinformed Consent in Neonatal Intensive Care
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May 16, 2013
Learning to Talk Like a Doctor
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May 13, 2013
Getting from “is” to “ought” Near the End of Life
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May 7, 2013
Is Five Hours Too Short to Say Goodbye? My Dad’s Rapid Autopsy
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May 1, 2013
Shame and Guilt in Minnesota
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April 24, 2013
OHRP and Public Citizen Are Wrong about Neonatal Research on Oxygen Therapy
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April 18, 2013
What if the Patient is Your Mother?
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April 1, 2013
A Peaceful Death or a Risk to People with Disabilities?
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March 19, 2013
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
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March 11, 2013
Why Target National Obesity Rates?
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March 11, 2013
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