Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 22, 2021
The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field.
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A New Theory for Gene Ownership
Bill of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
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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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Bill of Health
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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.
Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype
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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.
Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?
Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
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. The State has never staged nationwide public debates followed by the creation of specific frameworks to address patient autonomy and informed consent.
We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
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.
New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making
Bill of Health
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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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