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By Holly Fernandez Lynch and I. Glenn Cohen Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we just wanted to give a big thank you to our loyal readers, dedicated bloggers, and excellent commenters. You’ve helped make Bill of Health…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Following up on Chris Robertson’s and Kevin Outterson’s posts below (here and here), I just wanted to draw your attention to another federal district court opinion on the contraceptives coverage mandate.…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Talk about perfect timing. Just on the heels of Tuesday’s fantastic event at HLS on the Guatemala STD Inoculation studies (video to come soon), the Presidential Commission for the Study of…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Well, hopefully we’ll know the fate of the ACA by tonight. But even if President Obama wins, there will still be uncertainty about the fate of the contraceptives coverage mandate. A…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Next Tuesday, those of us registered in Massachusetts will have the opportunity to vote on “Question 2” – prescribing medication to end life, otherwise known as physician-assisted suicide. As described by…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Yesterday, President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its fifth report: Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing. I haven’t had a chance to digest it yet, but for…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Ok, so we’ll have a NEJM-heavy day today! But you’ve got to check out one more thing, statements from the presidential candidates on the future of American health care. This was the…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Our friends over at the New England Journal of Medicine just alerted us to a new perspectives piece addressing the impact of cutting family planning funds in Texas (the piece was also…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Related to the conversations we’ve been having lately on conscience, I wanted to point you to a relatively new book on the topic by Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch What do you think? Is queer bioethics a new academic discipline? If so, is it one we can hope not to need at some point in the future as tolerance increases,…
