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Ethical Placemaking for Refugees
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayMore than 4 million people have fled from war and terror in Ukraine. They are among the 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. What is brazenly clear is not only the impotence of the existing international apparatus designed to protect them, but also its asymmetries.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
MAID Without Borders? Oregon Drops the Residency Requirement
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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 - Bioethics Forum Essay
Research Ethics Meets the New Marketplace
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Should Clinicians Ask Hospitalized Covid Patients Why They Aren’t Vaccinated?
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Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive
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Should Pro-Choice Advocates Compromise on Abortion?
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Polygenic Embryo Screening: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLast month, Bloomberg reported on what seems to be the first child born following a new kind of genome-wide screening. Four embryos were screened, and the embryo selected for implantation was the one given the best genetic odds of avoiding heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and schizophrenia in adulthood. The news has been met with some concerns about the degree of control we may now have over future generations.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Human Challenge Studies for Covid-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and Risks
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayExperts in infectious disease and public health warn that the Covid-19 pandemic will be with us until there is an effective vaccine, possibly 12 to 18 months in the future. This situation has given rise to calls for human challenge studies, in which healthy volunteers are injected with an experimental vaccine and then infected with the disease to test the vaccine’s efficacy. Is this ethically justifiable?Read the Post