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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)
Money! Turns Out Its Bad for You...
Peter Singer opines in today's Accra Daily Mail, one of Ghana's capital city newspapers, about the evils of money. Singer cites a behavioral study that concludes that even the slightest suggestions of money presented to a group of individuals (e.g. money passing on a computer screen) made them less likely... (read the rest)
Can you buy changes in health behaviors?
By Stuart Rennie And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear One for every year he's away she said Such a crumbling beauty, Ach there's nothing wrong with her That a hundred dollars won't fix Those are lyrics from Tom Waits' song '9th and Hennepin.' They slipped involuntarily... (read the rest)
The global scramble for ready-to-consent populations
By Stuart Rennie Last year, Jill Fisher at Arizona State University wrote a very interesting article on the concept of 'ready-to-recruit' populations for biomedical research for the journal Qualitative Inquiry (subscription required, goddammit). The term 'ready-to-recruit' is a concept used in the pharmaceutical industry to describe populations that do not... (read the rest)
Is being infected with malaria worth $2000?
If it is, and you live in the Seattle area, there was some very exciting news last week. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute would like to trade that two grand for the time and inconvenience of having malaria-carrying mosquitos held up to your arm until they bite you. Here's... (read the rest)
Criminalizing the brain drain
By Stuart Rennie There are many numbers around to express the inequalities in health care between developed and developing nations. In Malawi, there is one physician for about 50,000 persons; compare with Great Britain, where it is considered shocking when there are districts with only one doctor per 3500. In... (read the rest)
Bringing ethics to the Grand Challenges in Global Health
By Stuart Rennie Social scientists and people working in ethics have been gradually infiltrating international health research over the last decade. The first step -- in the wake of well-known controversies -- was to make challenges raised by international health research into objects of ethical analysis. The literature on the... (read the rest)
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