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July 3, 2018
One Human’s Condition in the Post-Factual Age
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
It may be hard to believe, but I have been having trouble writing this blog lately. I blame the Supreme Court.…
July 1, 2018
Confusion and Conscientious Objection in Arizona
by Steven H. Miles, MD and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Nicole Mone Arteaga was trying to get pregnant. It had been difficult for her.…
June 19, 2018
Trumps Willing Executioners: Why We Should Just Say No
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
In 1996, Daniel Goldhagen published Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, where he argued that most Germans were complicit in the Holocaust because anti-Semitism was a key part of national identity.…
June 19, 2018
Child abuse as immigration policy: has America lost its moral compass?
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
The President of the United States, after discussion with key aides in the White House, implemented a policy in June of 2018 allegedly aimed at discouraging illegal border crossings by asylum seekers and others from entering the United States.…
May 22, 2018
The Land of the Gagged and the Home of the Complicit: Domestic Abortion Gag Rule is Unethical
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
On his fourth day in office, Trump reinstated the Mexico City Rule. The MCR was originally declared by Ronald Reagan in 1984 to prohibit U.S.…
May 4, 2018
Ethics and Society Newsfeed – May 4, 2018
Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bioethics group to study technology behind ‘three-parent babies’ “Mitochondrial genome replacement technology involves combining the genetic material (DNA) of a couple – who would otherwise be unlikely to have healthy children of their own – with that of a female egg donor.” Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials “In an article […]April 6, 2018
Ethics and Society Newsfeed – April 6, 2018
Image via Bioethics/Medical Ethics/Animal Ethics The Human Thing: When It’s Not About “Bioethics” “In the place of narcissistic and subjective dignity wrongly invoked by procreation militants, we need a return to the transcendent and objective dignity of human nature.” A Global Observatory for Gene Editing “Sheila Jasanoff and J. Benjamin Hurlbut call for an international […]April 4, 2018
Rise of Neopaternalism
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
This week I was teaching autonomy and paternalism to my Introduction to Bioethics class. We talked about how one of the founding myths of bioethics is that we saved patients from paternalistic medicine by forcing a turn to autonomy: Instead of being objects on which doctors did medicine, we became subjects with whom doctors worked to heal.…
March 6, 2018
Mainstream and Conservative: Different Flavors of Bioethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
As part of my Bioethics in Society: Critical Studies of Bioethics course, students have noticed a divide in bioethics writing between what we are calling mainstream bioethics and conservative bioethics.…
February 20, 2018
Bioethics Has a Silencer on Gun Violence
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Where is the vibrant bioethics literature on gun control and firearm violence? In 1997, bioethicist Leigh Turner asked why bioethics “neglect[s] issues of public health, preventive medicine and social medicine…{such as] gun control and firearm-related violence.” In 2012, Art Caplan wrote that “We need to treat violence as a public health issue” and in 2015 that “guns are a medical issue.” John Kaplan in an Albany Medical College blog in 2013 was amazed by “how little bioethicists are saying about the need for gun control.” In 2017, Jenny Nguyen in Medium offered a deontological examination of the issue: “I consider violence to be an issue that should be addressed using bioethics.” In 2018, Jones et.…
Published Articles (27)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 11 - Nov 2017
The Rescinding of DACA: What Should Healthcare Professionals and Academics Do? (and Why?) Mark G. Kuczewski & Danish Zaidi
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 10 - Oct 2017
Saving Life, Limb, and Eyesight: Assessing the Medical Rules of Eligibility During Armed Conflict Michael L. Gross
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 7 - Jul 2017
Rethinking the Belmont Report? Phoebe Friesen, Lisa Kearns, Barbara Redman & Arthur L. Caplan
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 7 - Jul 2017
A Proposed Process for Reliably Updating the Common Rule Benjamin E. Berkman, David Wendler, Haley K. Sullivan & Christine Grady
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 7 - Jul 2017
At Last! Aye, and There's the Rub Alexander M. Capron
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 7 - Jul 2017
Modernizing Research Regulations Is Not Enough: It's Time to Think Outside the Regulatory Box Suzanne M. Rivera, Kyle B. Brothers, R. Jean Cadigan, Heather L. Harrell, Mark A. Rothstein, Richard R. Sharp & Aaron J. Goldenberg
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 5 - May 2017
Ethics, Refugees, and the President's Executive Order Nancy E. Kass
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 17 Issue 5 - May 2017
Genetic Fingerprints and National Security Beau P. Sperry, Megan Allyse & Richard R. Sharp
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 15 Issue 6 - Jun 2015
U.S. Complicity and Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Time for a Response Katrien Devolder
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 15 Issue 2 - Feb 2015
Ritual Male Infant Circumcision and Human Rights Allan J. Jacobs & Kavita Shah Arora
News (495)
July 12, 2018 9:45 am
Pfizer buckles under pressure from Trump, delays drug price increases (The Washington Post)
Pfizer chief executive Ian Read said late Tuesday that his company would delay increasing the prices of dozens of drug products after President Trump publicly berated the firm one day earlier.
June 22, 2018 9:00 am
U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council (NPR)
After more than a year of complaints and warnings — some subtle and others a little less so — the Trump administration has announced that the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley announced the decision in a joint statement Tuesday.
June 21, 2018 8:55 am
A Pediatrician Reports Back From A Visit To A Children's Shelter Near The Border (NPR)
Nearly 2,000 immigrant children were separated from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully this spring, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Many pediatricians have expressed concerns about the effects this traumatic event could have on those children. Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, visited a shelter in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley where some of these children are held. She spoke with All Things Considered’s Audie Cornish about that visit on Monday. She said she’s concerned that the stress the children are going through will have long-term health effects.
May 18, 2018 9:00 am
In Germany, controversial law gives Bavarian police new power to use DNA (Science)
An estimated 30,000 people demonstrated in Munich, Germany, last week to protest a new Bavarian law giving police new powers.
April 19, 2018 9:00 am
Artificial intelligence must be 'for common good' (BBC News)
The Lords’ report said the UK has the potential to be a leader in developing AI and called on the government to support businesses in the field. It also recommended that people be educated to work alongside AI in the jobs of the future. It said that such education would “mitigate the negative effects” on jobs which are possible as AI develops.
March 21, 2018 9:00 am
U.K. attack shines spotlight on deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists (Science)
One of the world’s deadliest poisons has emerged from the shadows after the audacious attempt earlier this month to murder a former Russian spy on U.K. soil. Scientists are racing to unravel why the mysterious nerve agent, concocted by Soviet chemists in the 1970s, is so potent.
February 1, 2018 9:00 am
The Rise of the Anti-Trump “Girthers” (The New Yorker)
The matter of President Trump’s weight fits within a longer story about the erosion of trust between the Administration and the people it serves.
January 25, 2018 9:00 am
What should we have the right to know about a president's health? (CNN)
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has promised a readout of the results as soon as information becomes available. But ultimately, Trump may decide to withhold details from his physical from the public. He can do so because presidents are shielded by the same federal health privacy laws that protect each of us from undue scrutiny.
January 24, 2018 9:00 am
In Trump’s first year, science advice sees a marked decline (Science)
Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, expert panels that provide key federal agencies with science advice have had fewer members and met less often than at any time since 1997, when the government started tracking such numbers, a new analysis concludes.
January 11, 2018 9:00 am
With nuclear codes in hands, why doesn't the president get a thorough mental check? (CNN)
With a tell-all book raising concerns about US President Trump’s mental stability, there is a renewed question asking why the most powerful man in the world is not required to pass a thorough mental health exam.
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