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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

She does research, publishes, teaches, and consults in the areas of research ethics and clinic ethics and is an Associate Editor for the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships and a Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

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Why We Should Care About the Move from Saliva to Living Cells in Precision Medicine

Bill of Health

While collecting and isolating DNA samples from saliva may offer a wealth of information regarding heredity, disease risk, and other outflows of the “instruction manual” for patients, analyzing cells captures the minutiae of patients that goes “beyond the book” and most closely informs pathology.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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This is technoableism as I describe it in my book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Disability is often appealed to as a justification for technological development, and as a moral imperative toward investment in technological research.

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If You Give a Law Student a Baby

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They’ll need to do additional research to see how they can legally imitate a popular children’s book. Their research will show that “ fair use ” allows them to parody the book series by exaggerating its format in a new story. These procedures requiring informed consent will include the labor and delivery process.

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Health-Related Biometrics Open Up Privacy Risks

Healthcare IT Today

The Problem of Consent The concept of informed consent is certainly an improvement over the Wild West that preceded it in health care through the exploitation of individuals, such as famously documented in Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

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Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part One)

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professional licensing, informed consent, malpractice liability, and fiduciary duties) while these guardrails run counter to the presumed equality of speakers outside of this relationship. Writing for a unanimous court, and relying on the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Bantam Books, Inc.

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The Guardians of Professional Knowledge

Bill of Health

Conceptualizing the professions as knowledge communities informs how they are regulated: licensing requirements, unauthorized practice laws, professional malpractice liability, informed consent, fiduciary duties, and the scope of protection for professional advice disseminated between professional and client or patient within the relationship.