Upcoming Discussion: “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical...
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer have an interesting new article in the most recent issue of Ethics on “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason.” Abstract: Evolutionary...
View ArticleIf NeuroGaming Enables the Enhancement of Visual Multitasking, Should We...
By Matthew L Baum I recently saw someone walk into a signpost (amazingly, one that signalled ‘caution pedestrians’); by the angle and magnitude that his body rebounded, I estimated that this probably...
View ArticleEthics of experimental Ebola interventions
In “Ethical considerations of experimental interventions in the Ebola outbreak“, published yesterday by The Lancet, Zeke Emanuel and I discuss what we take to be the key ethical questions about the use...
View ArticleResearch Assistant III: Work with Professors Eyal, Hammitt, Freedberg,...
The research assistant will work with the principal investigator Nir Eyal and collaborators from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the...
View ArticleTerminally ill teen won historic court ruling to preserve her body after death
By John Tingle The British media have been reporting and discussing widely the case of JS v M and F (Cryonic case), 10th November 2016 in the High Court of Justice, Family Division, [2016] EWHC 2859...
View ArticleMedicine and Ethics: Religious or Secular?
By Yusuf Lenfest There is no lack of controversy when talking about religion and medicine in America today. Medicine is studied, practiced, and firmly rooted in the corporal world while religion draws...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Consciousness
By Yusuf Lenfest Think of the last few times you’ve had a very lifelike dream. Running, reading, or having conversations with others, are all activities that might happen during a particularly vivid...
View ArticleWhat are Our Duties and Moral Responsibilities Toward Humans when...
Much of what we fear about artificial intelligence comes down to our underlying values and perception about life itself, as well as the place of the human in that life. The New Yorker cover last week...
View ArticleBioethics in Islam: Principles, Perspectives, Comparisons
An important questions in Islam, recurrent across time and space, is whether Islamic political theory recognizes rights claims against the state as distinct from rights claims against other members of...
View ArticlePrenatal Testing and Human Capabilities
By Aobo Dong According to Vardit Ravitsky’s paper on “Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing,” there exist two competing rationales for prenatal screenings for severe disabling conditions like Down...
View ArticleOrcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights
With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability...
View Article‘Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics’ Examines the Intersection of Major...
When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health – from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records – can we really...
View ArticleUpdate on the Future Direction of Patient Safety in the National Health Service
Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on February 6 gave a wide-ranging speech on the future direction of patient safety in the NHS. The speech is important as it gives key...
View ArticleMalaria Eradication: For Africa as America
There is a page in the history books waiting to be written for the eradication of malaria. In recent years, malaria has killed more people globally than war—it’s killed predominately children, and...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the...
The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) is soliciting essays, commentaries, or short articles for a special issue on “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic.” For this issue we especially...
View ArticleAnonymity in the Time of a Pandemic: Privacy vs. Transparency
By Cansu Canca As coronavirus cases increase worldwide, institutions keep their communities informed with frequent updates—but only up to a point. They share minimal information such as number of...
View ArticleWhy ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical...
Cross-posted from Medium, where it originally appeared on April 10, 2020. By Cansu Canca Thanks to privacy-by-design technology, population-wide mandatory use of digital contact tracing apps (DCT) can...
View ArticleAre Clinicians Without PPE Morally Obligated to Care for COVID-19 Patients?
By Beatrice Brown There is currently a dire shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) at hospitals across the United States, especially in areas that have been hit the hardest by COVID-19. PPE is...
View ArticleSafer at Home? Yes, but Not According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court
By Beatrice Brown, Jane Cooper, and Danielle Pacia Due to the Bill of Health production schedule, this piece is being published two weeks after it was written, on May 20th, 2020. The authors would like...
View ArticleRacial Disparities Persist in Human Subjects Research
By Beatrice Brown Human subjects research has long been plagued by racial inequality. While flagrant abuses have been curtailed, disparities have, unfortunately, persisted. One area ripe for scrutiny...
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