Bodily Autonomy & the Patient’s Right to Refuse Medical Care
This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. The Supreme Court’s decisio...
Subject: Reproductive Ethics
Reproductive Ethics
Coercive Sterilization Isn’t A Matter of the Past: A Call to Action for Medical Providers...
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...
Gender Disparities, Reproductive Ethics
The Retrievals, Episode 2: The Nurse
Welcome back to my analysis of The Retrievals – a new podcast about women’s pain from This American Life and The N...
Why I’m Not Backing Down From Fighting for Our Right to Abortion
On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental ...
Abortion: Welcome to the Sixties
In November 1964, 9 years before the right to an abortion was codified by Roe v. Wade, I was an intern in a busy, urban ...
I Will Definitely (Probably?) Get The COVID-19 Vaccine While Pregnant
by Amie Devlin, MPH, MA As a pregnant epidemiologist and bioethicist with an interest in clinical research, the developm...
Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Justice, Professionalism, Reproductive Ethics, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Doctor Performs Hysterectomies on Immigrant Detainees
by Craig Klugman In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin Coun...
Everyone should support abortion-free vaccines
by Mark Christopher Navin, PhD; Michael Redinger, MD, MA Some leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates—including those being ...
Ethics Dumping and Medical Tourism In A Fertility Study in Mexico
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, NPR reported on a new pre-publication article published in the journal Human Reproduc...
BioethicsTV (January 13-16, 2020)
“Exploring ethical issues in TV medical dramas” by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 11): Anesthes...
Environmental Ethics, Gender Disparities, Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, In Memoriam, Justice, Neuroethics, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Privacy, Professionalism, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science, Social Justice, Technology
Top Ten Bioethics Stories of 2019
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. and Keisha Ray, Ph.D. The end of the year usually brings a media blitz of top ten lists for the ...
BioethicsTV (Dec 2-6, 2019): #TheResident
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The start of the winter holidays means winter hiatus for many shows. This week only one show dea...