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Art Caplan

  • Bioethics

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Science Anyone?

    By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health Contributor Arthur Caplan has a new piece up on bioethics.net. From the piece: Plenty of pundits are analyzing the Wednesday night GOP debate in terms of who won and…

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Science Anyone?

  • Bioethics

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: All Hat, No Cattle—The False Hope of Right-to-Try Laws

    Bill of Health contributor Arthur Caplan and Alison Bateman-House have a new piece up in Harvard Health Policy Review: Are right-to-try laws a good idea? In 2014, they began appearing throughout the United States, first in Colorado…

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: All Hat, No Cattle—The False Hope of Right-to-Try Laws

  • Bioethics

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Planned Parenthood’s awkward clash

    By Arthur Caplan A new opinion piece by contributor Art Caplan in The Chicago Tribune (free registration required): Planned Parenthood finds itself under attack by anti-abortion activists. Not much new about that. But the terrain of…

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Planned Parenthood’s awkward clash

  • Bioethics

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Why Jim Carrey is Wrong About Vaccines

    By Arthur Caplan A new opinion piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: California has decided one large epidemic scare is enough. After the frightening outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland and sickened…

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Why Jim Carrey is Wrong About Vaccines

  • Bioethics

    New from Bioethicist Art Caplan: How State Right-To-Try Laws Create False Expectations

    By Arthur Caplan A new piece by David Farber, Preeya Noronha Pinto, Bill of Health contributor Arthur Caplan, and Alison Bateman-House the Health Affairs blog: Over the past year, state Right-to-Try (RTT) laws that claim to enable terminally ill patients…

    New from Bioethicist Art Caplan: How State Right-To-Try Laws Create False Expectations

  • Health Law Policy

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Deep-Fat Fryers in Schools is Business, Not Freedom

    By Arthur Caplan A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: How bad is the obesity epidemic among kids in America? Bad enough that 69 percent of young adults in Minnesota cannot serve…

    Bioethicist Art Caplan: Deep-Fat Fryers in Schools is Business, Not Freedom