The Ethics of Sperm Freezing for Teenage Boys
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">A few weeks ago, I attended the </span><a style="line-height:...
View ArticleAuthorship in Global Health Research
<p><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In a recent paper published in <em><a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6939-15-42.pdf">BMC Medical...
View ArticleQuarantine: The politics are as real as the science
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Implementation of medical quarantines in America brings into conflict various...
View ArticleIs it Ethical to give Ebola-Sufferers a Placebo?
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Recently prominent bioethicists have voiced disagreement over whether it could be ethical to test...
View ArticleBrittany Maynard: A Terminal Cancer Patient’s Controversial Choice
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The cover story of the October 27, 2014, issue of <a...
View ArticleMaking a Case for Case Studies
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In Peter D. Kramer’s New York Times piece published in the ‘Couch’ section on...
View ArticleWisdom Does Come with Age
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Reminders of our finitude always lurk close by, like <a...
View ArticleThe New Abortion Issue: The Moral Status of Women
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Let me emphatically state at the outset of this short blog: I have always thought the elective...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Uterus Transplantation
<p><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In the last couple of years, the media has reported women undergoing uterus transplantations. Just last month, </span><a...
View ArticleDeregulation and Free Markets for Stem Cell Products
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Paolo Bianco and colleague Douglas Sipp wrote a very provocative and...
View ArticleScientific Research: Critiquing the Critics
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">When I was a young scientist (quite some time ago) there was a joke that seemed...
View ArticleMarketing Extremes That Even Give Big Pharma Supporters Pause
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">On November 28, 2014,The New York Times broke another story about BigPharma marketing extremes....
View ArticleJames and Lamar’s Excellent Adventure
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">You may remember a movie, now twenty five years old in which two apparently...
View ArticleMarketing Extremes That Even Give Big Pharma Supporters Pause
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">On November 28, 2014, </span><em style="line-height:...
View ArticleShould We Perform Kidney Transplants on Foreign Nationals?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">The title of the article in the Journal of Medical Ethics asks this...
View ArticlePatients Abandoned—Who is to blame?
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">The vast majority of developed nations in the world provide universal healthcare coverage for its...
View ArticleThe New Green Walls
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I have never worked in a nursing home. As a kid, I participated in mandatory choir concerts or...
View ArticleA Role for Clinical Ethics Consultants in Stem Cell Tourism
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Recently Dr. Christopher Thomas Scott of Stanford University wrote a great...
View ArticleShould We License Parents?
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Many professions require state or federal licensure, including hairdressers, teachers,...
View ArticleSome Older Hospitalized Heart Patients May Fare Better During Times...
<p><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">On December 22, 2014, </span><em style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">JAMA Internal Medicine</em><span...
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