Bioethics

Sharing Office Cubicles... and Diagnoses

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Stigma, Medical Ethics, Psychiatry, Confidentiality, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness Stigma, Privacy, Politics, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Healthcare Reform, Bioethics, Anxiety, Medicine, Healthcare, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Coworkers occupy peculiar in-between roles in our lives. Most days, we spend at least half of our waking hours with them. Disclosing our personal problems to them can offer advantages, generating social support, or can prompt stigma and discrimination.

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Autism and Genes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Stigma, Mental Health, Ethics, Health Care Reform, Genetics, Bioethics, Autism and Health Care, Autism Discrimination, Autism and Health Insurance, Autism Genetics, Autism, Autism Gene, Autism Genes, Autism and Genetics, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

How we -- as individuals and as a society -- respond to burgeoning genetic discoveries will be as important as these discoveries themselves.

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Vigilantes in Scrubs

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Patient-Centered Principles, Cruzan, Palliative Medicine, Barbara Coombs Lee, Beneficence, Autonomy, Bioethics, Healthy Living Health News, New Research, Death and Dying, Healthy Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

We need specific legal protection for professionals who honor their patients' end-of-life decisions and follow best-practice standards for managing end-of-life agonies.

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'Green' Scientists Offer Controversial Blueprint For 'Engineered Humans'

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Dna, Video, Philosophy, Geoengineering, Human Engineering, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Science, Ethics, Bioengineering, Green, Climate Change, Genetics, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Bioethics, Global Warming, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/30/2012 07:27 AM EDT on LiveScience So far, conventional solutions to global warming ...

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Genetics as Rohrshachs: Pondering Genes and Fate

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Genes, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Bioethics, Testing Genetics, Genetic Testing, Gene Testing, Genetics and Health, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

"I always knew I shouldn't have stayed in that job and that apartment," a social worker with breast cancer and a mutation for the disease recently tol...

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Am I My Genes? The Question Of Fate, Free Will And Genetics

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Religion, Metaphysics, Mental Health, Health, Ethics, Science, Coping, Genetics, Religion and Science, Medicine, Bioethics, Spirituality, Religion News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Some feel that God is the ultimate cause of disease. Others don't know what to believe and ponder the "cosmic roll of the dice." "There has to be a purpose to all this happening," one woman told me. "There has to be."

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Cloned Mammoths, Robotic Animals Coming To A Zoo Near You?

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Animal Cloning, Video, Zoos, Robotic Animals, Wooly Mammoth, Zoology, Animals, Wooly Mammoth Clone, Bioethics, Jurassic Park, Future Zoos, Science News

In the future, going to the zoo will be pretty wild. From cloned versions of extinct animals and big habitats where human visitors and not the animals...

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Is Neurotechnology Unethical? UK Council To Examine Controversy

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Neurotech, Brain Computer Interface, Nuffield Council, Brain Technology, Brain Medicine, Ethics, Reuters, Neurotechnology, Bioethics, Video, Science News

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which examines ethical issues raised by new developments in biology and medicine, launched...

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Science, Technology and Values in Undergraduate Education

Michael Roth | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Video, Liberal Arts Education, College, Hastings Center, Liberal Arts, Science, Higher Education, Bioethics, Science Education, College News
Michael Roth

2011-12-14-Screenshot20111214at5.55.45PM.jpgWe are connecting our schools to the worlds of public life, the economy and the broader culture.

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Bioart is Changing the World

Andy Miah | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Human Enhancement, Science, Bioethics, Bioart, Arts News
Andy Miah

In the end, if we are to experiment with creating new forms of life with synthetic biology, cloning and genetic modification, shouldn't we just admit that it is for little more than our own amusement, whether that is the amusement of our own existence, or that which we find in witnessing great art?

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Children Who Glow? A Jewish Law Perspective On Reproductive Ethics

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Chimerism, Artificial Insemination, Xenotransplant, Jewish Law, Jewish Thought, Human Artificial Chromosome, Bioethics, Surrogates, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Cloning, Emory University, Genetic Engineering, Ethics, Religion and Science, Judaism, Religion News
Mary J. Loftus

The centrally important question under Jewish law would be: Have we produced another healthy or healthier child?

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Why I Hope Contagion Is Catching

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Public Health, Bioweapons, Bioethics, Contagion Movie, Entertainment News
Jonathan D. Moreno

Hollywood producer Steven Soderbergh in his latest film Contagion has done what few big-budget Hollywood filmmakers do. He has respected his viewers' intelligence.Contagion not only includes marquee stars, but also respects science.

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"Ethically Impossible"

Amy Gutmann | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: u.s. Guatemala Syphilis Lawsuit, Guatemala Syphilis Study, Guatemala-Std-Research, Presidential Commision Bioethical Issues, u.s. Guatemala Syphilis Study, Bioethics Guatemala, Bioethics, American Medical History Guatemala, US Guatemala Experiments, Politics News
Amy Gutmann

Yesterday, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues delivered a report that details how from 1946-1948, a team of U.S. researchers intentionally infected more than 1,300 Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases.

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Shocking Details Revealed About U.S. Medical Experiments

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: US Experiments, US Experiments 1940s, US Penicillin Experiments, US Medical Experiments, Medical Experiments Guatemala, US Experiments Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala Experiments, Bioethics, Politics News

ATLANTA -- A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decis...

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Hans Jonas: The Most Inspiring Teacher That I Never Met

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Judaism, Jewish Philosophy, Environmentalism, Holocaust Theology, Bioethics, Martin Heidegger, Eco-Theology, Hans Jonas, Hans Jonas Theology, Jewish Ethics, Green, Religion News
Rabbi Lawrence Troster

Hans Jonas was one of the most important 20th century Jewish philosophers. But within the Jewish community, he is virtually unknown.

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Indiana Considers Sanctioning Animal Cruelty

Camilla Fox | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Michael Vick Dog Fighting, Fox Penning, Dog Fighting, Bioethics, Coyote Trapping, Coyote Penning, Indiana, Green News
Camilla Fox

We've laid down the law that entertaining ourselves by pitting one animal against another in bloody combat is cruel and unethical. However, few Americans are aware that there is "entertainment" even nastier than dog or cockfighting.

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10 Teachings On Judaism And The Environment

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Eco-Theology, Jewish Environmental Teaching, Biblical Sources for Environmentalism, Eco-Judaism, Environmentalism, Hazon, Jewish Environmentalism, Bioethics, Greenfaith, Tikkun Olam, Jewish Social Justice, Green Faith, Religion News
Rabbi Lawrence Troster

By putting God at the center of life, we see the sacred in everything and the natural world becomes a source of wonder and not only a resource for our use and abuse.

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There's No Guarantee Against Unethical Medical Research

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Bioethics World Panel, Bioethics U.S. Panel, Bioethics Panel, Health, Bioethics, Guatemala Syphilis, Home News

ATLANTA — Experts say that the kind of unethical medical studies that occurred half a century ago could still happen again despite more than 1,0...

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Pill That Shapes Fetus Genitalia Cuts Chances Of Homosexuality In Girls

LA Times | Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Queer, Fetus, Genitals, Heterosexuality, Parenting, Hormones, Homosexuality, Intersex, Gay Rights, Health, Vagina, Gender Identity, Bioethics, Dexamethasone, Healthy Living News

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. C...

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On The Bridge: A Conversaton Between A Pro-Lifer And An Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Medical Ethics, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Bioethics, Jeanne Loring, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Religion News
Christine A. Scheller

I was a pro-lifer whose child had an incurable disease. What I wanted to know was: what would I do if hESCs could cure my child'sNeurofibromatosis?

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The Human Centipede -- a Film Essay

Andy Miah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Technology, Film, Bioethics, Entertainment News
Andy Miah

What seems to be a simple case of morally dubious conduct reveals itself as an example that gets to the heart of the debate over the ethics of human enhancement.

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Tempest in a Womb: What's Wrong With Preventing (Or Promoting) Homosexuality In Utero?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Law, Reproductive-Endocrinology, Children, Endocrinology, Lesbian, Motherhood, Gay, Parenting, Hormones, Sexuality, Gender, Politics, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Mother, Sex, Father, Fatherhood, Living, Technology, Bioethics, Medicine, Gay Issues, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

A recent debate in the fields of bioethics surrounding novel treatments for an uncommon genetic disorder has raised the question: Is it ethical to attempt to predetermine the sexual orientation of one's children?

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The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Synthetic Life, Biology, President Obama, Green, Genetics, Stem Cell Research, Bioethics, Craig Venter, Technology News
Michael Rugnetta

The promise of the field of synbio as a whole is that scientists will be able to employ this type of genome synthesis to create customized life forms for a wide array of purposes. The peril is exactly the same as the promise.

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New Milestone in Genetic Testing

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Science, Genetics, Bioethics, Medicine, Health Care, Healthcare, Privacy, Politics News
Michael Rugnetta

Here is my latest article on the first study published by a Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing company: Defining the Boundaries of Genetic Testing N...

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Are We Ready for Coed Hospital Rooms?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Law, Equality, Coed-Dorms, Sex Discrimination, Men, Canada, Mixed-Gender, Coed Hospital Rooms, Gender, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, Sex, Liberalism, Hospitals, Women's Health, Doctors, Medicine, Bioethics, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

Long emergency room stays are one of the most unpleasant and potentially dangerous aspects of healthcare delivery in most western nations. In recent ...

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