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February 15, 2011

Eugenic or Not, Sterilization Makes Sense for "P"

The current case before a British judge as to whether a mentally disabled woman identified only as “P” should be sterilized has raised the ire of medical ethicists and the disability community.…

March 19, 2010

March Issue of AJOB is Now Online!

Trans fat bans, peer recruitment for human subjects research, and the clash of culture versus the rights of physicians are the featured issues in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics.…

March 18, 2010

Trans Fats Today. Hot Dogs Tomorrow?

Will banning artificial trans fats today effect your ability to have a hot dog tomorrow?

On the The Bioethics Channel, Lorell LaBoube seeks an answer from David Resnik, a bioethicist and IRB chair for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.…

June 16, 2009

Botched Prenatal Test = Botched Knee Surgery? I Don't Think So.

But if you as Susan Wolf, professor at the University of Minnesota, she would tell you that suing for one screwed up procedure is no different than suing for another.…

April 15, 2009

When Donor Sperm Goes Bad...

A federal court has ruled that a sperm bank can be held responsible for a poor genetic outcome as a result of conceiving a child with donor sperm, reports the WSJ Health Blog.…

February 9, 2009

Don't Look Now....But Do.

Today, I am ashamed to say that I was born a Hoosier. The state of Indiana, as well as Texas, Nebraska, and 8 other states are attempting to pass laws that would require ultrasounds prior to performing abortions, says USA Today.…

October 28, 2008

And You Thought Electric Chairs Were Cruel and Inhuman

Oxford University’s Practical Bioethics Blog informs us that the tools of eugenics are alive and well in Europe–but for an entirely new reason all together.…

September 23, 2008

Getting Off Easy

According to a study published in the journal Pain Medicine as reported in the NYT, approximately 0.1 percent of pain physicians ever face punishment or sanction for prescribing narcotics.…

January 24, 2008

Doctors and the death penalty

What role, if any, should doctors have in executions? That’s the focus of an editorial in this week’s NEJM by Gregory D.…

October 31, 2007

An update on the lethal injection question

Just 15 minutes before a man in Mississippi was set to be executed last night, the Supreme Court issued a stay.…