By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new column up discussing the surrogacy agreement gone awry (noted by Judy Daar below) in which a surrogate was offered $10K to abort the fetus upon discovery of abnormalities. Take a look. We’ve also had other discussions of this issue at Bill of Health, from Dov Fox’s recent…
Join us for an important meeting: Roundtable: Family, Privacy, Secrets & the Law March 7-8, 2013 March 7-8, 2013 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law 500 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21201 March 7, 5 p.m. – Book Reading and signing by Jonathan Odell, author of The Healing March 8, 9 a.m….
By Dov Fox Having a child is hard work. It can be especially taxing—“physically, emotionally, and of course, financi[]ally, to bring a child with [disabilities] . . . into the world and raise it,” as commentators have noted in response to an earlier version of this piece that Chris Griffin and I wrote yesterday on…
By Casey Thomson Even the surprisingly resurrected Richard III (on the Twitter-sphere, anyway) appreciates bioethics concerns. Read on to find out more about Richard III’s eagerness for patient confidentiality and other updates in this week’s (extended) Twitter round-up: Stephen Latham (@StephenLatham) included a link to his blog post challenging Andrew Francis’ recent claim that penicillin…
Jonathan Lazar on Locked Out: Investigating Societal Discrimination Against People with Disabilities Due to Inaccessible Websites Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | 4:00 pm Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge Jonathan Lazar is a professor of Computer and Information Sciences, director of the undergraduate program inInformation Systems, and founder and director of the Universal Usability Laboratory,…
By Michelle Meyer As most readers are probably aware, the past few years have seen considerable media and clinical interest in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, neurodegenerative condition linked to, and thought to result from, concussions, blasts, and other forms of brain injury (including, importantly, repeated but milder sub-concussion-level injuries) that can lead to…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan and his colleagues at the NYU Sports & Society Program have an interesting new essay up at Forbes: Obama Administration: Playing Sports Is Now A Civil Right The United States Department of Education has released aguidance requiring schools to make “reasonable modifications” to include students with disabilities in mainstream athletics programs or provide parallel options….
By Nir Eyal With an approved constitution, elected officials and now, recognition from all three divisions of the American Philosophical Association (APA), a new society is finally official. The Society for Philosophy and Disability, or SPD, will hold its first two sessions at the February 2013 Central APA meeting in New Orleans. SPD is a…
