Bioethics
Caplan on Organs and Inmates
By Art Caplan Are we ever capable of laying a stupid idea to rest in America? Apparently not. The latest tempest in the ever-resurrecting world of solutions to the shortage of organs is donation by…
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Bioethics
Caplan on Selling Organs
By Arthur Caplan Check out Art Caplan‘s new op-ed “Why Selling Kidneys Still Won’t Work” over at NBCNews: If the price was right, would you sell your kidney to someone who desperately needs a transplant?…
Caplan on Selling Organs
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Bioethics
Art Caplan on social media and medical privacy
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at NBCNews.com. In “Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions,” Caplan argues: Presuming doctors, their helpers or your neighbors are…
Art Caplan on social media and medical privacy
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Bioethics
More on the Debate over Vaccines and Liability
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health Contributor Art Caplan has a new opinion piece online at MedScape: “YOUR Fault if Your Unvaccinated Child Makes Someone Sick.” (Note: Registration to access MedScape is free.) Are you…
More on the Debate over Vaccines and Liability
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Bioethics
Art Caplan on New York State’s Mandate to Vaccinate against the Flu or Wear a Mask
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has co-authored a new article, with Nirav R. Shah, published online today by JAMA. In “Managing the Human Toll Caused by Seasonal Influenza: New York State’s Mandate to Vaccinate or…
Art Caplan on New York State’s Mandate to Vaccinate against the Flu or Wear a Mask
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Bioethics
Art Caplan: Surgery to stop autistic boy’s screams was the right decision
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new op-ed up at MSNBC.com: A Wisconsin mother says that surgery helped quiet her autistic teenage son’s ceaseless screams, a decision that has attracted criticism from many, including…
Art Caplan: Surgery to stop autistic boy’s screams was the right decision
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Health Law Policy
More from Caplan on holding non-vaccinators responsible
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a short new article out expanding on the idea he launched here at Bill of Health that non-vaccinators should be held liable for the harms they can cause. Take…
More from Caplan on holding non-vaccinators responsible
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Doctor-Patient Relationship
Art Caplan: Heiress’ gifts to medical workers raise thorny ethical issues
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece at MSNBC.com discussing the ethical issues raised by heiress Huguette Clark’s sometimes enormous gifts to the medical workers who cared for her while she lived in…
Art Caplan: Heiress’ gifts to medical workers raise thorny ethical issues
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Biotechnology
Art Caplan: In Defense of GMOs
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health contributor Art Caplan has a new opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In “Genetically Modified Food: Good, Bad, Ugly,” Caplan argues for the unrealized promise of GMOs:…
Art Caplan: In Defense of GMOs
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Public Health
Art Caplan: Prayer no substitute for vaccination
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece up at nbcnews.com on a recent outbreak of measles centered around a church in Newark, Texas. From the piece: The congregation of Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark,…
Art Caplan: Prayer no substitute for vaccination