Those of you loyal blog.bioethics.net followers may have noticed a new voice here this week. I have been remiss in introducing Emily Willingham, PhD, who has graciously agreed to joined blog.bioethics.net as a guest blogger. Emily will be writing in from Austin, TX as she did this week when Oprah's... (read the rest)
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)
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)
Below are the 20 most viewed essays on blog.bioethics.net for 2008. #1: Monkey Cloning Follow-Up #2: Jon Stewart as Socrates #3: Is Being Infected With Malaria Worth $2000? #4: The World Waits Breathless as Nebraska Considers Banning Cloning #5: Bioethics Abandons Creationism Debate #6: Forum on Nanotechnology in Consumer Products... (read the rest)
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)
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)
According to the NursingGuide.com, our blog ranks 29th out of all pharmacy blogs--placing us squarely in the top 50. Right back at ya pharmacists, we love you too! Summer Johnson, PhD... (read the rest)
A recent report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, as reported on US News and World Report, found that more than half of medical blogs allowed the physicans themselves to be identified and even some patients could identify themselves from the blog entries. Far be it from us to... (read the rest)
This weblog is written by the Editors of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB). We are told by research librarians in a position to make such claims and whom we did not pay off that this was the first editors' blog for a medical or biomedical science journal, and that... (read the rest)
Props to x-ray technicians and those who love them at http:///xraytechnicianschools.org who said that our site is among the top 100 cutting edge science blogs and among the top 3 biology blogs on the web. While you all are off reading the blog and AJOB Neuroscience and all its amazing... (read the rest)