If there is one thing that characterizes good history, it is transparency. Even if one objects to the intense focus on acknowledging diversity, equity, and inclusion over the past several years, erasing what you may not agree with is not the answer. The post Let’s Not Erase the History of Medical Ethics appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics.| The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create the Center for Humanities-based Health AI Innovation (CHHAIN). The new center and three-year initiative aims to create ethically responsible and trustworthy AI for health care that uses history and patient narratives to shape the technology, according to a release. It represents a collaboration between the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy ...| InnovationMap
Brain-dead after suffering a fatal stroke and in the early weeks of her pregnancy, the doctors at Emory University Hospital finally turned off the machines after the C-section delivery of her son, Chance, who weighed less than two pounds. Adriana Smith was kept on life support without the consent or input of her family.| Good Faith Media
By Dr Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert – student on the MSt Practical Ethics programme The advent of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence has opened up new possibilities for health research. Specifically, these techniques could be let loose on ‘big data’, such as the collective data of healthcare organisations (including the NHS), and would likely reveal new insights| Practical Ethics
Danielle Ofri hosts fellow medical writers Perri Klass, Esther Choo, and Damon Tweedy to talk publishing advice, creative writing, patient consent, the medical/writing life, and how to wrestle ethical dilemmas onto the page. More| Danielle Ofri
One way to teach Medical Ethics courses is to start with theory and then work through a series of pro/con pieces on abortion, euthanasia, using non-human animals in research, organ markets, etc. It’s a standard approach and for good reason: it introduces students to the moral aspects of these debates and helps them critically assess…| Blog of the APA
The declaration of Helsinki recently turned 60, but don’t feel bad if you missed the celebrations. It probably passed unnoticed by most people not working in the medical field – and possibly even a good few in the field. If you’re not familiar with the declaration – adopted by the World Medical Association on October| Practical Ethics
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common adverse event in cancer patients and can negatively affect their quality of life (QoL). This randomized phase II cross-over trial aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of an electric massage chair (EMC) for the treatment of CINV. It was conducted on solid cancer patients who received moderate (MEC) to| Edzard Ernst
New International Consensus Calls for Healthcare Providers to Stop Performing Medically Unnecessary Genital Surgeries in Prepubertal Children and Infants, Regardless of Sex or Gender A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics published today in the American Journal of Bioethics argues that all children (defined in the study as prepubertal minors)| Practical Ethics
Written by Joseph Moore Earlier this year, Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) delivered a Practical Ethics and Law Lecture at the Uehiro Centre on the topic of consent and autonomy-based arguments in medical ethics and law, to which the Centre’s Esther Braun responded. In the course of this enlightening discussion (and in private conversation since),| Practical Ethics
Written by MSt in Practical Ethics student Dr Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert Human beings, as a species, love to tell stories and to imagine that there are person-like agents behind events. The Ancient Greeks saw the rivers and the winds as personalised deities, placating them if they appeared ‘angry’. Psychologists in classic 1940s experiments were impressed at| Practical Ethics
Chapin, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Intact America, Exposes the Big Business of Medical Circumcision and the Cruel Absurdity of Circumcising Baby Boys for No Medical Reason (Tarrytown, New York—February 16, 2024)…Georganne Chapin, 72, has called out injustice throughout her life, as a child of civil rights activists, a budding anthropologist in Latin America, a...| Anti-circumcision Advocates | Intact America
