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
MARCH 9, 2022
She teaches Psychedelic Bioethics at The Ohio State University, and she previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Emma Tumilty, PhD is a bioethicist and lecturer in the School of Medicine at Deakin University.
Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype
Bill of Health
JANUARY 29, 2024
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.
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
JULY 18, 2022
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.
Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula
Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.
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