By I. Glenn Cohen I have a new paper on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, just published in the European peer-reviewed philosophy journal Ethical Perspectives. It is available for free download here. Here is the abstract: While NFIB v. Sebelius largely upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it did not do…
By Dov Fox That’s what CNN called yesterday’s report with science writer Emily Anthes about her new book, Frankenstein’s Cat, which examines “genetically modified this, or cloned that,” as she put it, or “creatures that combine electronic bits and biological ones.” Wrestling with the ethics of such cases, Anthes explains, “reveals that we’re deeply conflicted about the…
By I. Glenn Cohen Rebecca Skloot, author of the very interesting and well-written bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — a book about the poor and badly treated black woman whose cells became the famous (and very heavily used) HeLa cells, medicine and the treatment of African-Americans, and who owns products derived from one’s…
By The Petrie-Flom Center It’s a day early this week! Check out the latest installment of Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics’ Friday Newsletter here.
Are you interested in foreign aid, global development, medicine? Want to know how philanthropy and charitable giving can do the most good? Aid Works (On Average) – By Toby Ord Tuesday, March 26th; Emerson Hall 108; 8 PM There is considerable controversy about whether foreign aid helps poor countries, with several prominent critics arguing that it doesn’t. Dr. Ord shows that…
By Arthur Caplan Last week, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics issued new recommendations on disclosure of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing. Take a listen to Art Caplan‘s response over at The Takeaway.
By Laura Stark Working in private, the National Academy of Sciences’ panel on human-subjects regulations in social-behavioral sciences met this weekend to draft a final report. On Friday, the panel had wrapped up its public “Workshop on Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule in Relation to Behavioral and Social Sciences.” The workshop aimed to critique…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. Earlier this month, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recommended that researchers should be trusted with the ability to decide whether individual studies involving human subjects should be exempt from regulation. The AAUP’s report, which was prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure,…
A front-page story in today’s Sunday Boston Globe quotes Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox on whether the routine use of new prenatal blood testing could “‘bring a tendency to exclude rather than accommodate people whose abilities fail to meet [certain] demands’” of modern society or “‘exert[] social pressure on parents to terminate pregnancy for fear of criticism or reproach from…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new column out at CNN on the court-approved use of a “narcoanalytic interview” as part of (alleged) Colorado theater shooter James Holmes’ competency evaluation. Caplan’s take? “There is no drug that is going to shed trustworthy light on Holmes’ state of mind last year when, police say, he…
