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By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new op-ed out on the three-parent baby issue. Here’s an excerpt: In my view, trying the technique to fix a terrible disease even with risks of failure makes…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at NBC News online arguing that the Rhode Island Department of Health is right to propose a new policy mandating that “all children between 6 months and…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece, co-authored with David C. Magnus, Ph.D. and Benjamin S. Wilfond, M.D., in the NEJM, addressing the legal and medical reasons for accepting brain death as death. From…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has published a new op-ed piece in the LA Times addressing the case of Marlise Munoz, the brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman from whom doctors are refusing to withdraw “life-sustaining treatment”…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at NBC News online weighing in on the case of Marlise Munoz, the pregnant Texas woman who was declared brain dead by doctors several weeks ago…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has weighed in again, in a piece at Time.com co-authored with David Magnus, on the ongoing McMath case, in which 13-year-old Jahi McMath’s parents are fighting to keep her on life-support…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has weighed in, with a piece for NBC News online, on the debate over the case of a thirteen-year-old California girl whose parents are suing to keep her on life support…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece over at NBC News online on Nelson Mandela’s AIDS legacy: […] It had been an enormous mistake to ignore the epidemic, made even worse by installing…
By Art Caplan Cross-post from bioethics.net Imagine that you were in a terrible car accident and suffered a huge loss of blood. An ambulance comes and takes you, dazed and in pain, to the only…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at bioethics.net on Princeton’s plan to import and administer a meningitis vaccine not approved for use in the US in an effort to curb an outbreak…
