by Tom Murray, Ph.D. I will say it: Dan Callahan is the most important person in Bioethics. For his ideas; for his role in creating and nurturing The Hastings Center; and for his ability to spot, encourage, and motivate talent. Dan is credited as author or editor of 47 books and many hundreds of articles, chapters and the like. His 1970 book, Abortion: Law, Choice & Morality, set a standard for his future writing and for the nascent field of Bioethics: Thorough research, careful attention to the relevant facts, fair-minded weighing of the moral arguments, and the courage to take a stand on a profoundly controversial matter.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Steven Stryker was 75 years old when he died on May 13 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa. His death was not avoided when health care providers did not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Stryker had a DNR order even though he, his daughter, and his health care surrogate did not want it. Stryker had some capacity and some deficits, and a court-appointed a professional guardian to control his affairs.…
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#Bioethics News: Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a vast ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology. https://t.co/FPyv4bKlyC
#Bioethics News: Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma urged a judge Monday to find health-care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson culpable for the consequences of the state’s opioid epidemic and assess the company as much as $17.5 billion to help clean up the damage.
#Bioethics News: Earlier this year, the #UnitedNations issued an urgent warning regarding the growing dangers associated with increasingly widespread antibiotic resistance https://t.co/lvPn8eoG1P
#Bioethics News: Urinary tract infections (#UTIs) are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, with multiple standard treatments no longer working to cure them... https://t.co/pE1mBqFFYv
#Bioethics News: The latest in the @nytimes - #Polio cases are surging in #Pakistan and #Afghanistan due to false rumors that children were fainting or dying, leading parents to turn away vaccinators, threatening the campaign to eradicate the disease https://t.co/vPcTfENM4T
