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A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill of Health

The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution. By James Toomey.

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field.

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The Legal and Ethical Imperative of Explicit Consent in Intimate Medical Procedures

AIHC

However, sensitive exams and other intimate tasks conducted without consent can leave patients feeling violated. Informed consent is a cornerstone of ethical medical practice. of them expressed a correct understanding of what constitutes informed consent. [3] Written by: Shelby Harriel-Hidlebaugh, M.Ed.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

However, we find their piece at odds with the available information in the fields of P-AT and psychotherapy. We explain three major concerns: consent and autonomy, risk mitigation, and evidence and reasoning. Conditions for autonomous decision-making rely on the ability to comprehend and weigh information.

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New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making

Bill of Health

The study offered participants a prompt drawn from classical debates in bioethics on the ethical status of advance directives — documents composed while at full cognitive abilities that direct certain medical treatment in the event that the author later loses mental capacity.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues. There are also questions about how to assess whether students will make more ethical decisions in practice.

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication. I hope that this symposium contributes to furthering conversations and generating new questions in the context of a broader “critical turn” within psychedelic studies.