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Bioethics Needs More Than Number Crunchers, says Caplan
Even as one trained in said number or data or fact crunching--whether you want to call us social scientists or empirical bioethicists or what have you--I do not take issue with Caplan's essential view--bioethics needs more than just facts to do its job well--it needs those who can argue and... (read the rest)
Chi-Town Is A-Buzz With Bioethics Happenings...
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is encouraging the Chicagoland area to come out for a panel discussion about bioethical issues fed from topics and questions sent from Twitter and Facebook, says the Chicago Trib. The project called, "Science Chicago", will include local bioethicists from Northwestern University and the University... (read the rest)
Death in the Midwest
Never mind the obvious disconnect between being "pro-life" and trying to make your point by killing someone in cold blood. Let's put that to the side for the moment and focus on something else: Dr. Tiller, shot to death this past weekend, was one of only three physicians in the... (read the rest)
Have We Become Too Dependent On Our Medicine Cabinet?
Christian Science Monitor is asking an important question: "Have we become too dependent on our medicine cabinet?" Medical ethicists, physicians, and even patients and their advocates who are growing increasingly concerned about the reliance that Americans place upon their pharmaceuticals to make them well. My questions is: "What's the real... (read the rest)
In Memoriam
Rabbi Gerald I. Wolpe died on Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Rabbi Wolpe was one of the nation's most prominent rabbis as well as a bioethicist. Rabbi Wolpe's "second career", as it is sometimes described, was in bioethics, which focused on medical education and ethical caregiving, says the... (read the rest)
Do You Want Fries with That?
One of the oldest jokes around for those trained in philosophy includes a punch line about serving fries at insert name of favorite fast food restaurant. Well, it would appear at, at least in the UK, the view of one columnist about the value of philosophy degrees, thanks to the... (read the rest)
Center for Practical Bioethics Celebrates 25 Years
Today in Kansas City leaders in the field of bioethics gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Center for Practical Bioethics. Topics at the Bioethics Symposium range from organ donation after cardiac death by AJOB's own associate editor, David Magnus of Stanford University to ethical and social issues relating... (read the rest)
Stem Cell Research in South Korea: Here We Go Again?
The South Koreans have decided to hop on the human embryonic stem cell research merry-go-round again, conditionally lifting a ban on the use of human eggs in research says AFP. But will the ethics safeguards put in place be enough to ensure that this time the fraud and ethics violations... (read the rest)
Former PCBE Member Tells University of Notre Dame to Take a Flying Leap
Former President's Council on Bioethics member and Harvard Law Professor, Mary Ann Glendon, has told the University of Notre Dame to take the honor it wished to bestow upon her and kindly have it back. Why? Evidently, she doesn't think that President Obama shares the same notions of social justice... (read the rest)
Who Knew It Took So Many Words To Tap Dance?
US News and World Report's "God and Country" blogger Dan Gilgoff published an interview between Doug Kmiec and Robert George who discussed a range of bioethics topics including when life begins, the moral status of the embryo and more. Gilgoff described it like this: "Grab a beverage and get comfortable.... (read the rest)
Bioethics: The Next Generation
What will the next generation of bioethicists look like? Well, if the 2009 NUBC is any indication it is likely to be more diverse and larger than the previous ones. Over 300 undergraduate students from more than 60 institutions were in attendance. That's a lot of budding bioethicists, if you... (read the rest)
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,... (read the rest)
Interview with the Bioethicist
Okay, it's not quite as provocative as an Anne Rice novel...no vampires or anything, and not anywhere as long, but if you want to read about what our colleague Lisa Eckenwiler is doing at George Mason University, the Washington Examiner will tell you. Summer Johnson, PhD... (read the rest)
NYU MA in Bioethics Takes a Novel Approach
Bioethics.net is proud to welcome the NYU Master of Arts program: Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment to its group of sponsors. The NYU Master of Arts in Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment promotes a broad conception of bioethics encompassing both medical and environmental ethics through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and... (read the rest)
Can a Medical School Afford NOT to Have Medical Ethics?
Evidently, at least one major medical school things so. And to boot, their Chancellor, President and Board of Trustees appears to think that they can not only afford to live without a medical ethics department but to actively do away with their current one. The Health Science Center at the... (read the rest)
Want to Get Away From It All?
If you have a book, article, or PhD to finish and you'd like to do it in Europe for a month or up to six months, the Brocher Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving scientists a community in which to do research, is accepting applications for visiting researchers... (read the rest)
Shout Out to Our Sponsors of 2008, 2009 and Beyond....
The year of 2009 has already started out to be a fascinating year for bioethics: divorcing spouses want internal organs back as part of settlement offers, Angelina Jolie look-alike gives birth to octuplets, and an inmate who is suing prison officials for force feeding him on his hunger strike. Bioethics.net... (read the rest)
Diversity in the Next Generation of Bioethicists
One university is putting diversity front and center and helping to ensure that the next generation of bioethicists is more culturally and ethnically diverse than ones gone by. The students at the University of Maryland Baltimore County recently started a Bioethics Student Association. This year, the UMBC Bioethics Student Association... (read the rest)
Ghana Gets a Bioethics Commission
How do you know that bioethics has made it big time in a country, in my humble opinion? Their government creates a bioethics commission, of course! According to ModernGhana.com, UNESCO has bought bioethics, via commission, to Ghana and has empaneled a 16 member group to discuss important bioethical issues play... (read the rest)
Blogher Asks "Why Do We Need Medical Ethics Anyway?"
I was drawn into a story of a patient undergoing a routine breast exam described on Blogher.com and the discomfort that occurred as the physician with less than bedside manner overzealously examined her breasts. However, what went from a story about a borderline unethical doctor changed became much more dull... (read the rest)
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?". The article published at Public Discourse, recounts his experience serving on the Kass Council. However, his account, as reported... (read the rest)
Put the Best Face on Bioethics, Please?
We're playing this "Facebook" game, because it links millions and millions of young people, patients, those seeking clinical trials, and those who want to find a hot date [or others at Yale, where Facebook was invented and thrives] to bioethics. These are people who would not find bioethics blogs or... (read the rest)
Free Market Madness Hits Stores On Inauguration Day
A few of us here at bioethics.net were recently informed that something very important is happening on January 20th. Anyone know what? Does that date mean anything to anyone? Well, for starters, an exciting new book called "Free Market Madness: Why Economics is at Odds with Human Nature, and Why... (read the rest)
The Wonders of Polyheme...By Press Release
In the time since my research group published numerous articles concerning community consultation in the trial of the oxygen-carrying blood substitute Polyheme, particularly the most recent trial, conducted in a number of institutions (all Level I trauma centers), Polyheme has been subjected to more criticism than any other substance ever... (read the rest)
Caplan Discusses Bioethics and the Obama Presidency on NPR
Yesterday, Arthur Caplan discussed on NPR's Fresh Air the array of bioethical issues that the Obama presidency is going to grapple with in the coming years. As the article states, In an article last month for MSNBC.com, Caplan writes that it is crucial for politicians and pundits alike to pay... (read the rest)
She Has Death Written All Over Her
A New Zealand woman isn't leaving anything to chance in the event she is taken into an emergency room unconscious. She doesn't want there to be any mistake about her wishes in the event of a life-threatening event. She's so serious about it, in fact, that she tattooed "Do Not... (read the rest)
Is Art Caplan One of the Smartest People on the Planet?
Discovering Minds Want to Know...
Check out this update from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics noting that Arthur Caplan has been recognized by Discover Magazine. The article is below. Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics, was named to Discover Magazine's "Smartest People on the Planet" list, which includes picks... (read the rest)
The Brothers Emanuel
So, this isn't news (it originally aired June 16th this year)--but who wouldn't want to watch Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the NIH, duke it out with his two brothers, Rahm--soon to be Chief-of-Staff for the Obama administration--and Ari, on whom the... (read the rest)
Ethics Hits Center Stage at Upcoming Autism Conference
The Interdisciplinary Council on Learning Disorders will hold its Annual Conference next Friday through Sunday (November 7th-9th) highlighting ethical issues in autism. What is remarkable about this is that the creator of the widely acclaimed framework for caring for children with Autism and founder of ICLD, Stanley Greenspan, and... (read the rest)
Bioethicists Discuss "Future Tense" in Cleveland
Starting today in Cleveland, Ohio, more than 700 bioethicists from around the world gather to debate topics ranging from enhancement in sport to vaccine ethics to the bioethics of food at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. This year's meeting is held at the... (read the rest)
Loving to Hate Bioethics
Wesley Smith's Second Hand Smoke is promoting Bioedge, a blog that slams bioethics and its professionals hard. Michael Cook's screed takes to task bioethics as a discpline and its members saying that "That sexy little prefix "bio" has become a Kevlar vest for so-called experts who couldn't score a job... (read the rest)
Flatliners: Coming to a Hospital Near You
From Secondhand Smoke, Wesley Smith reports that researchers are attempting to understand near death experiences by studying what happens to heart attack patients after the heart stops or brain waves cease. What is the big white light? Are reported out of body experiences real? Can we find clues to what... (read the rest)
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