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Apr 03, 2012

In Memoriam: Fr. Kevin O'Rourke

From the Loyola University Chicago Neiswanger website:

Kevin O’Rourke, O.P., J.C.D., S.T.M., Dominican priest, canon lawyer, and health care ethicist died on Wednesday.…

Mar 25, 2011

Religious Belief Makes You Fat?

According to a story in the L.A. Times Booster Shots blog, it would appear that religious belief is strongly correlated with packing on the pounds.…

Oct 27, 2010

On Pro-Life Bioethicists

Rarely do I ever find myself reading USCatholic.org, but in this particular case, I could not help but be drawn in the train wreck of bad argumentation put forth by “Guest Blogger Father Joseph Tham, L.C., M.D., Ph.D.” in his post “Pro-life academics means pro-life ideas“.…

Nov 06, 2009

The November Issue of AJOB Is Now Online!

With H1N1 and flu vaccines on everyone’s minds, the November issue of The American Journal of Bioethics couldn’t be more timely.…

Dec 15, 2008

Who Cares if the Vatican Weighs in on Bioethics?

No one. At least that’s my view. Certainly not American Catholics who use birth control, IVF, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, and a wide range of other reproductive technologies previously and even more so now get a Holy finger wagging from Rome.…

Jul 16, 2008

Where's the Beef...or Should I Say Pork?

With the Food and Drug Administration’s most recent approval of an antiwrinkle injectible that will keep a person’s face expressionless, an important question must be asked: can the new Evolence, made from the stuff of food-grade pigs, be used by Jews without violating the Rabbinic laws?…

Apr 01, 2008

Art Caplan on children's medical care and prayer

In his latest column for MSNBC, Art takes on cases where parents don’t seek medical care for their children because of religious objections:

Ava Worthington is dead.

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Mar 06, 2008

Intro to Islamic bioethics

Over at the Wired Science blog, Brandon Keim asked a few Muslim bioethicists about how Islamic views of biotechnology compare or contrast with Western approaches.…

Feb 28, 2008

Should you "protect" a patient from his own convictions?

This week’s JAMA includes an interesting article by Dr. Bruce Campbell, a surgeon in Milwaukee. He writes about his apprehension in removing a tumor from a Jehovah’s Witness.…

Nov 06, 2007

Beliefs and blood transfusions

The British press has been following an emotional story about religious belief and patient autonomy. In October Emma Gough gave birth to twins.…