Tag: government
Blog Posts (9)
September 1, 2010
McGee: Back on the Embryonic Stem Cell Merry-Go-Round, But Going In A New Direction
On the Bioethics Channel, Dr. Glenn McGee, the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics, stakes out his own position regarding the recent U.S.…
July 8, 2010
Puttin' On the Ritz...With the PCSBI
Writing live from the Ritz Carlton Washington DC at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI), here is what I have heard so far….…
April 8, 2010
The Presidential Commission: The Member Analysis
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) had its membership announced yesterday–and frankly, I am apprehensive about the future of the commission.…
November 26, 2009
A NEW Presidential Commission on Bioethics. We Christen Thee, Pucks-Bee. Let God Be Praised.
We all have a great deal to be thankful this Thanksgiving, and now we have one more thing to add to our list: another presidential bioethics commission.…
March 17, 2009
One Bioethics Council Dies, As Another Carries On
What will become of government bioethics? At this point, it’s anyone’s guess. Last Thursday, in Washington, the President’s Council on Bioethics convened the some of the world’s experts in government bioethics councils to discuss the past, present and future of bioethics councils including the head of the UK’s Nuffield Council, former executive directors of national bioethics councils and former chair’s of US executive bioethics bodies.…
January 26, 2009
Will President Obama Listen to Conservative Bioethicists?
Robert P. George, former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics appointed by former President George Bush, has raised precisely this question in an online essay entitled, “A Diverse Bioethics Council?”.…
January 12, 2009
Mexico's Healthcare System Wins Red Tape Award
And you think your health insurance company is bad? Just be happy you don’t live in Mexico. There it takes two physicians, four bureaucrats, and quadruplicate forms to get life-saving medications in that country, and as Cecilia Velazquez, winner of this year’s red tape “prize” in Mexico has brought to our attention, Mexico’s healthcare system is a bureaucratic nightmare that is just unacceptable–to the point of winning said contest in her home country for the long waiting times, multiple hoops, and redundancies built into the system.…
July 30, 2008
Not Waiting for the Feds on Nano...
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies announced yesterday that another city, following the lead of Berkeley, California, has taken action at the local level to promote the safe use of nanotechnologies in the absence of federal regulations regarding the research and development of nanoparticles and their related technologies.…
November 13, 2007
What should be the state's role in keeping us healthy?
That’s the question taken up by a report out today from the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The committee behind the report recommends a “stewardship” model for the government.…
Published Articles (1)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 8 Issue 11 - Nov 2008
Federalism, Federalism Everywhere Summer McGee
News (2)
July 12, 2012 12:29 pm
U.S. Injected Gitmo Detainees With ‘Mind Altering’ Drugs (Wired News (blog))
Prisoners inside the U.S. military’s detention center at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly given “mind altering drugs,” including being injected with a powerful anti-psychotic sedative used in psychiatric hospitals. Prisoners were often not told what medications they received, and were tricked into believing routine flu shots were truth serums. It’s a serious violation of medical ethics, made worse by the fact that the military continued to interrogate prisoners while they were doped on psychoactive chemicals.
May 16, 2012 9:35 am
The Obesity Epidemic - Two Policy Experts Speak Out (Forbes)
As part of our look into the obesity epidemic, we decided to ask two leading healthcare policy experts questions about the likelihood and potential impact of a tax on the obese and a tax on high-fat and high-sugar foods. This is the third article in a series I have written on obesity, with the previous two articles, A Fat Tax In America’s Future? and Cash As Weapon In The War Against Obesity, based on data from a proprietary survey about American’s views on obesity and what can be done about it.