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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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PRE-EXISTING CONDITION IN THE WOMB? Thirty-five years ago, our first son was born and, expecting only good things, we happily paid...
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Friday, October 20, 2017

In Consenting to Treatment, What Does a Patient Need From a Doctor? Trust? What Else?

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By Gordon Bugbee Patient dignity and self-determination demand consent before treatment. The more consequential or irreversible the tre...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

'Bioethics Club'

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Who has a keener sense of injustice than the high school student? School teachers know that at this critical time of emotional and intellec...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Video: Volunteers speaking for voiceless patients

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

The Value of Oversight in a Century of Promise & 'Cures'

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This post, by CEC member Paul McLean, originally appeared on WBUR's CommonHealth blog. The blood-thinner heparin is not a 21st-centu...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

ASBH Annual Meeting Presentations by the CEC

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Members of the CEC will be presenting two panels at the upcoming ASBH Annual Meeting in Washington, DC and we are excited to share our work ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Chaplains, Decisions & the Most 'Alone' of Patients

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By Paul C. McLean,  April 14, 2016 In making decisions about medical treatment for patients who are “incapacitated and alone,” as an in...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

Love Wins

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“Why?” is one of the first questions we humans ask.   Developing ethical justifications to support decisions is an essential part of my par...
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Monday, February 8, 2016

When Medical Ethics Enters the Campaign

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Ethical questions in medical care and science will be prevalent throughout the presidential election season. How deeply they are considered...
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Friday, December 4, 2015

Even Gene Editors Need an Editor

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During the international conference that went by the hashtag #GeneEditSummit, a message on Twitter thanked the Center for Genetics and Soci...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Getting a Handle on CRISPR/Cas9 (Part 2)

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Takeaways from Day 2 of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing. The challenge: Not devoting all of them to legal scholar and doctor...
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Getting a Handle on CRISPR/Cas9

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One day into the International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, D.C., I’m struck by how easy it is for a lay person (namely myse...
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