Blog Posts (28)
May 15, 2013
My wife and I spent May 10-11 at the annual conference of Biola’s Center for Christian Thought (CCT), where the theme for 2012-2013 has been “Neuroscience and the Soul.” The plenary talks are not all on the web, yet, although some are on Facebo...
May 15, 2013
In two prior posts I wrote about how dealing with a student who committed plagiarism on an ethics paper made me think about why I teach bioethics and what I really want students to learn. Above all Christian ethics is about learning to live a morally u...
May 14, 2013
The week we have just begun has found me processing several things, juxtaposed into a whole.
The first of these was learning of the death of Dallas Willard, longtime USC professor and author of intellectually-provocative evangelical works like “The D...
May 7, 2013
Medical records:
Waiting for medical records “after discharge” is of no help.
Reviewing medical records while an inpatient in the hospital allows the patient and/or a surrogate decision maker to obtain the greatest amount of in...
May 5, 2013
Lately, there have been a bevy of articles steeped in irony, addressing the health hazards of health care to one’s health and well-being. Two articles by Roni Caryn Rabin in the April 29th, 2013 edition of the Washington Post (“Hospitalized Patient...
May 3, 2013
On April 19th, the Office of Fair Trading, a UK consumer-watchdog agency, accused GlaxoSmithKline of delaying competition with its antidepressant drug paroxetine (Brand name Paxil in the US, Seroxat in the UK) by paying generic manufacturers to delay m...
May 3, 2013
BEI Young Professionals member Betsy Campbell covers artful media around the world that touches upon topics in bioethics.
Dancing Wheels, a US-based physically-integrated professional dance company, is now in its 32nd season. It tours the US and perfor...
April 26, 2013
Is it ever right for a doctor to try to persuade a patient to choose one course of action over another? Some would argue that this is an example of blatant paternalism, even coercion, unethical because it violates a patient’s autonomy. To such p...
April 25, 2013
BEI Young Professionals member Betsy Campbell covers artful media around the world that touches upon topics in bioethics.
The second Annual ReelAbilities: Philadelphia Disabilities Film Festival is scheduled for this month. Reelabilities is the largest...
April 23, 2013
If the events of recent weeks and months—last week’s bombing in Boston; the explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas; and the Newtown massacre, to name a few—remind us of anything, it is that life is fragile. Death, suffering, pain, and s...
