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Capacity and Medical Decision-Making in First- and Third-Person Perspectives

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A new study in AJOB Empirical Bioethics by myself, Jonathan Lewis, Ivar Hannikainen, and Brian Earp suggests that people may favor different decisions when deciding for others versus when deciding what they would want for themselves. In the study, we presented a cohort of nearly 1,500 U.S.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

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attempt to complexify the notion of consent in altered states by presenting contradictory assertions that patients can be more authentic in altered states (enhanced capacity for consent) and that they can become regressed (increased need for touch but impaired capacity for consent). McLane et al.

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Highlights from Petrie-Flom Center Discussion on Neuroscience and Cannabis

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Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. In 2022, the last time that we did this presentation, there were 37 states that authorized cannabis for medical use,” Tabashneck said. “In

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Introducing Petrie-Flom’s POPLAR and PULSE Affiliated Researchers on Psychedelics

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They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Harrison M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher, and bioethicist. John Rapp , J.D.,

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Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care

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Understanding the present: the complicated ethics of civil commitment These failures significantly complicate the ethics of civil commitment. Zain Khalid is Assistant Professor at Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a master’s candidate at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics (M.B.E

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Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

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Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Casey presented data that focused on ages 10 to 25 years to demonstrate observable changes in the brain’s capacity for change, also known as plasticity, throughout the emerging adolescence period.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

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Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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