by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. Right now in America there is a growing movement to help Americans die well. Organizations like Life Matters Media and Death Over Dinner aim to help people with end of life decision-making and to help people facilitate conversations about death with their families, friends, and communities. But in this dying well movement there is some controversy about who gets to participate and how they ought to participate.…
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by Barbara Ross Rothweiler, Ph.D., ABPP & Ken Ross In the coming year, we celebrate the 50th publication anniversary of On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler Ross M.D. As her children, we are privileged that she is remembered, that we continue to hear her voice in the voices of others, and that we had the opportunity to learn from such a compassionate teacher and example.…
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#Bioethics News: Excerpts of He Jiankui’s manuscript were made publicly available for the first time, showing how he violated ethical and scientific norms in his creation of the first gene-edited babies #CRISPR #researchethics https://t.co/8UGXlpw84V
"Are there particular things that you feel still need to be said to your loved ones, or things that you would want to take the time to say once again?"
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#endoflife @KublerRoss #medethics
Including pregnant women in clinical drug trials would provide them and clinicians with better information about the safe and effective use of medications during pregnancy. Yet sponsors of drug trials and many researchers have long been reluctant to do so.
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#Bioethics News: Scientists worry that genetic research in China may be used to monitor and subjugate China’s ethnic minorities, causing some researchers to retract papers that have already been published #researchethics https://t.co/LOoVFeXcKv
"Don’t worry, Mom. I’m going to tell both of you everything.”
from @BioethxMark's powerful article, "Everything I Really Needed to Know to Be a Clinical Ethicist, I Learned From @KublerRoss"
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#endoflife #death #medethics
