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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

The phenomenon of citing anecdotal evidence as if it is scientific evidence appears across training materials, research articles, and general discussions by stakeholders (e.g., This is not an acceptable level of evidence given the degree of patient vulnerability and the need to address serious and widespread records of harms.

Bioethics 359
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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. An active bioethics and medical law community is needed to influence the interpretation of the law in Courts to set standards that complement the right to health.

Bioethics 147
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New Portable MRI Revolutionizing Brain Research Demands Ethical and Legal Innovation

Bill of Health

Working with an interdisciplinary expert Working Group supported by the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics program, our newly published article in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) provides the first consensus guidance for addressing ethical, legal, and policy challenges in field-based neuroimaging research with highly portable MRI.

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Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

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If selected, draft articles will be due on or before February 1, 2023. Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

Bioethics 147
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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

Bill of Health

It is essential reading; the article points to the cruelty in how we situate advice and research around screen time for autistic people — and speaks to a much broader field of research that serves to always compare and situate autistic kids against typical peers, and never letting autistic kids be autistic and respected on their own terms.

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Regulating Medical Assistance in Dying: A Comparison of the U.S. and Canada

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Canada’s MAID law has some safeguards to prevent patients from being coerced into MAID, such as requiring cognitive capacity to consent, voluntary informed consent, assessors and witnesses who are independent of each other and who have no conflicts of interest, and waiting periods between different stages of the process.

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

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As an article in The Atlantic points out, the risks of the experiment did not outweigh the potential benefits, the gene editing was poorly executed, the participants’ consent was questionable, and the experiment was kept hidden from Dr.