In 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Jason Weiner found himself in a moral quandary. An elderly Holocaust survivor was in serious condition in Los Angeles’ Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, where Weiner ...
Few areas of public policy have been fraught with as much controversy as bioethics. Although some people dispute whether it is even a discipline, bioethics tackles some of the most complex and ...
Bioethics has always been enmeshed in controversy. Arising out of gross abuses of the rights of human subjects in mid-20th-century scientific research, the field has grown to take on a variety of ...
The Houston/Galveston Network is comprised of philosophers working at the intersection of philosophy and bioethics. The network is a collaborative between philosophy faculty and post-docs in The BCM ...
Progressives Struggle to Take America’s Side in a Fight Audio By Carbonatix Over at the Wall Street Journal, our friend Yuval Levin has a great review of a new book, What It Means to Be Human: The ...
The book “Artificial Intelligence Based Cancer Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Bioethics” gives a comprehensive explanation of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in ...
For Travis Rieder, experience with opioids began after a 2015 motorcycle accident. The medication helped him through six operations but, as he recovered from the injuries, he discovered that ...
There is no good death, I now know. It always hurts, both the dying and the left behind. But there is a good enough death.” So concludes Ann Neumann in re­sponse to the central questions of her book: ...