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02/19/2020 Dr Neil Armstrong – Why is Mental Healthcare so Ethically Confusing

by Practical Ethics

In the first St. Cross seminar of the term, Dr. Neil Armstrong talked about ethical challenges raised by mounting bureaucratic processes in the institutional provision of mental healthcare. Drawing on vignettes from his ethnographic fieldwork, Dr. Armstrong argued that the bureaucratization of mental healthcare has led to a situation in which the provision of care […]

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02/19/2020 Dr Neil Armstrong – Why is Mental Healthcare so Ethically Confusing

by Practical Ethics

In the first St. Cross seminar of the term, Dr. Neil Armstrong talked about ethical challenges raised by mounting bureaucratic processes in the institutional provision of mental healthcare. Drawing on vignettes from his ethnographic fieldwork, Dr. Armstrong argued that the bureaucratization of mental healthcare has led to a situation in which the provision of care […]

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02/18/2020 Assessing and Respecting Sentience After Brexit

by Practical Ethics

Thanks to a generous grant from Open Philanthropy, last year the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities co-sponsored a workshop with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) examining the ethical and legal implications of recent advancements in our ability to assess the mental […]

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02/18/2020 Assessing and Respecting Sentience After Brexit

by Practical Ethics

Thanks to a generous grant from Open Philanthropy, last year the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities co-sponsored a workshop with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) examining the ethical and legal implications of recent advancements in our ability to assess the mental […]

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02/18/2020 Justified without Justice in the Realities of Warfare

by THE ETHICS AND SOCIETY BLOG

STUDENT VOICES | A Reflection on The 2019 National Conference on Ethics in America at West PointBy Marla Hasin Imagine being stuck in a coffin-like box, with just enough room to feel the rise of your chest as you inhale. You attempt to look at your chest, but you are halted by the thump of […]

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02/18/2020 Avoiding Compassion Fatigue: Drain Less, Recharge More

by Reflective MedEd

By Eran Magen You open yourself up to the pain of others, in order to be a comforting presence in the middle of a terrible experience. It helps them, and it drains you. It is exhausting to experience so much secondhand suffering. Over time, it sucks the color out of your own life, leaves you […]

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02/18/2020 The Advancing Slippery Slope of Organ Donation and Euthanasia

by Bioethics at TIU

The timing of organ donation relative to death of the donor is critical to the survivability and future functioning of the donated organs in the transplant recipient. With cardiovascular death, circulation ceases in the donor causing his or her death, making it legally and ethically permissible to retrieve the organs for donation. Unfortunately, cardiovascular death …

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02/17/2020 USMLE Step 1 Goes Pass/Fail: What Happens Now for U.S. Medical Students?

by Julia Knopes, Ph.D.

Recently, the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) announced that the USMLE Step 1 exam for medical students will change its score reporting from a numeric score to pass/fail as of 2022. This news signals a substantial shift for medical education in North America and in particular the United States, as numeric Step 1 scores have been traditionally used to screen the most competitive applicants for physician residency programs. My hope is that the change in Step 1 scoring may lead to more holistic residency applications, as well as reduced medical student burnout when facing these life-altering exam scores.…

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02/17/2020 Globalized Science in a Deglobalizing World

by The Hastings Center

The arrest of Harvard chemist and nanobiologist Charles Lieber on charges of lying about his research funding from China encapsulates two phenomena currently in tension: the global nature of modern science and attempts to nationalize the fruits of science.

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02/17/2020 Of Risks and Benefits

by Bioethics Today

Among the most fundamental concerns regarding medical, biomedical, and bioethical decision making are the concepts of risk and benefit. Of course, benefit is better than risk so this might seem to be a fairly easy balance to calculate. But it is not. I...

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