Call for Abstracts: Looking Forward to a Post-Pandemic Landscape
The Petrie-Flom Center and the Solomon Center for Health Law Policy are interested in tracking when crisis settles into the new normal.
Ethics
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Read more: Racial Disparities Persist in Human Subjects Research Racial Disparities Persist in Human Subjects Research
Human subjects research has long been plagued by racial inequality. While flagrant abuses have been curtailed, disparities have, unfortunately, persisted.
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Read more: Safer at Home? Yes, but Not According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Safer at Home? Yes, but Not According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court
In Wisconsin, pushback against stay-at-home orders culminated in the state Supreme Court’s decision on May 13 to reverse the state’s “Safer at Home” policy.
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Read more: Are Clinicians Without PPE Morally Obligated to Care for COVID-19 Patients? Are Clinicians Without PPE Morally Obligated to Care for COVID-19 Patients?
Clinicians should not be obligated to perform these heroic acts, nor should we morally blame them for their decision to refuse to provide care.
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Read more: Why ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical Measure Against COVID-19 Why ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical Measure Against COVID-19
Even if counterintuitive, mandatory private-by-design digital contact tracing is the only ethical option for fighting COVID-19.
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Read more: Anonymity in the Time of a Pandemic: Privacy vs. Transparency Anonymity in the Time of a Pandemic: Privacy vs. Transparency
By Cansu Canca As coronavirus cases increase worldwide, institutions keep their communities informed with frequent updates—but only up to a point. They share minimal information such as number of cases, but omit the names of individuals and identifying information. Many institutions are legally obligated to protect individual privacy, but is this prohibition of transparency ethically…
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Read more: Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic” Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic”
The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) is soliciting essays, commentaries, or short articles for a special issue on “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic.” For this issue we especially encourage shorter pieces, of roughly 1500 to 5000 words. If any particular aspect of how this pandemic will affect some part…
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Read more: Malaria Eradication: For Africa as America Malaria Eradication: For Africa as America
Despite being curable, and eliminated from most developed countries, malaria is the fifth deadliest infectious disease in the world. Gene drives could change that. Let’s give it a try.
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Read more: Update on the Future Direction of Patient Safety in the National Health Service Update on the Future Direction of Patient Safety in the National Health Service
By John Tingle Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on February 6 gave a wide-ranging speech on the future direction of patient safety in the NHS. The speech is important as it gives key insights into government priorities for patient safety policy development in the NHS.He stated that we all…
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Read more: ‘Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics’ Examines the Intersection of Major Issues in Health Care ‘Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics’ Examines the Intersection of Major Issues in Health Care
When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health – from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records – can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such…
