Philosophy

  • Read more: Transplant Tourism: Hard Questions Posed by the International and Illicit Market for Kidneys, New Article I Wrote
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    Transplant Tourism: Hard Questions Posed by the International and Illicit Market for Kidneys, New Article I Wrote

    [Cross-Posted at Prawfsblawg] The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics has just published an article by me on transplant tourism, that discusses the burgeoning international market for buying and selling kidneys. I review the existing data from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, which is pretty deplorable. As I show the vast majority of these sellers are…

  • Read more: Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us”
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    Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us”

    By Scott Burris We may be living in a golden age of group-think. A weekly reminder is poor Paul Krugman railing against the apparently universal belief in America and Europe that we’ve got to cut budgets right now or disaster will strike. He calls this a Zombie idea, a false claim that has been falsified…

  • Read more: Feb 28: Ruth Grant speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics
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    Feb 28: Ruth Grant speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics

    Please join the HMS Division of Medical Ethics and Program in Ethics and Health for… “Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives” Ruth W. Grant, PhD Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Duke University Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:00 – 1:15 PM HMS Division of Medical Ethics 1st Floor Conference Room 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston…

  • Read more: Save The Date: Making Science Work with Sir Paul M. Nurse
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    Save The Date: Making Science Work with Sir Paul M. Nurse

    With Panelists: Eric Lander, Broad Institute and Biology, MIT Lisa Randall, Physics, Harvard University Charles Rosenberg, History of Science, Harvard University Moderated by: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday, February 6 5:00 – 7:00 pm Pfizer Lecture Hall Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab B23 12 Oxford Street, Harvard University Cambridge,…

  • Read more: The Society for Philosophy and Disability Is Official
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    The Society for Philosophy and Disability Is Official

    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…