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Version 3.0: pandemic.bioethics.net
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net Resources: Pandemic Influenza Ethics Initiative Resources from the Veterans Health Administration's National Center for Ethics News: WHO: Up... (read the rest)
Victims and Vectors
If you haven't read enough about pandemics and ethics or the swine flu yet (and seriously who hasn't read enough about this), the OUP Blog is recommending some additional reading written by philosophers Leslie Francis and Peggy Battin, as well as Jay Jacobson and Charles Smith called Patients as Victim... (read the rest)
UPDATE: Your Source for Swine Flu and Ethics: pandemic.bioethics.net
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net News: Flu Fighters? Experts: Tamiflu, Relenza work on swine flu but only sickest may get it Blogs: Caplan:... (read the rest)
Caplan: No Hype In Flu Response
Art Caplan writes today in his MSNBC column: "overall, the resources, attention and response to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak have been absolutely appropriate." Do you agree? Go to pandemic.bioethics.net to post your own reactions to Caplan's column. To read the entire column read more after the break or click... (read the rest)
Politicians are NOT Public Health Officials, But They Try to Play Them on TV!
After Vice President Joseph Biden's gaffe last week when he appeared on the Today Show about not taking public transportation such as subways and airplanes out of concern for being in confined spaces due to the swine flu, he's making up for it now. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World... (read the rest)
Politicians are NOT Public Health Officials, But They Try to Play Them on TV!
After Vice President Joseph Biden's gaffe last week when he appeared on the Today Show about not taking public transportation such as subways and airplanes out of concern for being in confined spaces due to the swine flu, he's making up for it now. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World... (read the rest)
Politicians are NOT Public Health Officials, But They Try to Play Them on TV!
After Vice President Joseph Biden's gaffe last week when he appeared on the Today Show about not taking public transportation such as subways and airplanes out of concern for being in confined spaces due to the swine flu, he's making up for it now. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World... (read the rest)
AJOB Editors' Blog: A Swine Flu Review
Just recap what we have written so far here at blog.bioethics.net: Caplan: Controlling the Swine Flu Means Looking to Simple, Not Sexy, Lessons from the Past The Two Ruths Say Wash Your Hands and Don't Panic. From 1918 to 1976 to Today: A Swine Flu Memoir Summer Johnson, PhD... (read the rest)
From 1918 to 1976 to Today: A Swine Flu Memoir
It wasn't all that long ago that Ricki Lewis, guest editor for The American Journal of Bioethics and guest blogger for blog.bioethics.net wrote a post called "A 1918 Flu Memoir" published here and in The Journal. Scientifically interesting and from a human perspective, Lewis' essay now has taken on a... (read the rest)
World AIDS Day: How Far We've Come...and Still How Far There is to Go
Today marks the 20th World AIDS Day. In these last 20 years, medical research has sparked marvelous breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS around the world--even in developing countries where for many years since the outbreak of this once-deadly, now nearly chronic, disease treatment was inaccessible due to cost. Yet... (read the rest)
Foreign Policy's 10 "missed" stories of 2007
Sure, the magazine's list includes items about topics such as borders, juntas and terrorism. But it also touches on transgenics, disease and robots: (descriptions from FP's site) #6 The American Heartland Grows Crops -- with Human Proteins Farmers have long experimented with crops bred to produce better yields, with few... (read the rest)
Is Phoenix Taking Quarantine Too Far?
In a modern day Typhoid Mary case, Arizona has opted to quarantine a man infected with extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) - in the local county hospital's Ward 41, the section set aside for sick criminals. Robert Daniels has been locked up there since last summer, and is going... (read the rest)
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