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From left: Shelly Bolotin, Maxwell Smith, Trina Racine, Natasha Crowcroft and Scott Gray-Owen| EPIC Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium
Consider the case of Harvey. Harvey experiences paranoid delusions, and one evening, he can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching him from his closet. In his panic, he calls the police to come investigate the intruder. When the officers arrive, they do not find anyone besides Harvey, who is agitated and experiencing significant mental […] The post Criminalizing Mental Illness: Cops as Clinicians and Incarceration as Health Care in the United States first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
From left: Shelly Bolotin, Maxwell Smith, Trina Racine, Natasha Crowcroft and Scott Gray-Owen| EPIC Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium
Death Revisionism—including the kind Drs. Jauhar, Patel, and Smith propose—is not an ethically viable option. Of that, I think, we can be relatively confident. Of the options that remain, however, there is not one that asserts itself as the obvious alternative.| Public Discourse
I agree with Professor Tollefsen that we should seek a morally consistent approach to organ donation, and one that does not involve intentional killing. I also agree that this leads us to the conclusion that existing criteria for ethical organ donation after cardiac death are untenable. These patients don’t seem to be dead in any metaphysical sense and so it is difficult to say that the Dead Donor Rule is being respected in these cases.| Public Discourse
Our public policy should be based on the biological truth about death, and the moral truths governing permissible and impermissible actions. We should not let policy desires drive our factual claims about when death takes place.| Public Discourse
UK and Australia are easing surrogacy access despite a UN report calling for a worldwide ban, slavery-like conditions, and $100B industry.| National File
What is the relationship between disability and well-being? (In this post, I’ll call this the Relationship Question.) The Relationship Question is both enormously complex and highly fraught—philosophically, socially, and politically. Philosophers have starkly different views. One prominent view, held by Elizabeth Barnes, is that disability is a Mere Difference: having a disability does not, on| Blog of the APA
Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith takes aim at the arguments permeating our culture that devalue human life. Smith makes readers aware of the historic roots of the modern euthanasia movement, which today repeats arguments made by Nazis and proponents of eugenics tied back to 19th century social Darwinism. Smith, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, is extremely sensitive to the Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
A new study weighs the rare ethical justification for genome-driven extinction of harmful species like screwworms, mosquitoes, and invasive rodents.| AGDAILY
Bioethics has been a key beneficiary, even an exemplary product of the post-World War II international order, which is now undergoing an accelerated dissolution. The post Putin, Xi, and Me: Bioethics in the New World Order appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics.| The Hastings Center for Bioethics
"We do not publish any work advancing views that are clearly contrary to the established teachings of the Catholic Church." That's in the submission guidelines for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (NCBQ). Also in those submission guidelines: The NCBQ seeks to foster intellectual inquiry on moral issues by publishing articles that address the ethical, philosophical, theological, and| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
The UN disability rights committee warned France’s euthanasia bill enables the killing of disabled citizens under ‘ableist assumptions,’ ignoring alternative support for dignity in life.| LifeSite
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership with the Institute. The genetic code that goes on to create our brains, our selves, and our consciousness, is not only hereditary. Anna M. Hennessey argues that microchimerism, where non-hereditary DNA is introduced| Blog of the APA
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a program within the Department of Corrections that would allow incarcerated individuals to donate bone marrow or organs in exchange for a reduced sentence. The bill aimed not only to address the…| Blog of the APA
According to the World Health Organization, the global biosecurity threat is increasing. One reason is that genetic editing and synthesis technologies are advancing and becoming more widely accessible. Another is the continuing characterization of the genetic makeup that would make a pathogen especially lethal, exceptionally communicable, and otherwise dangerous to human populations. Almost no country…| Blog of the APA
An interview with one of the most famous and controversial philosophers and bioethicists of our time.| Liberal Culture
In human subject research, we often face an ethical question: is it ever justifiable to deceive participants? After all, deception can be effective in getting unbiased data in studies where the awareness of the experiment’s purpose is likely to change how participants behave. Yet, there is a deeper ethical dimension here. My recent paper, Honesty…| Blog of the APA
I am putting the finishing touches on “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy,” my contribution to Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Image by Mariya Popovich from Pixabay This article is part of our “Religious Perspectives on Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy” series. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. While a great deal has already been written about cross-racial surrogacy and surrogacy in India, there are, however, no significant or credible studies concerning gestational surrogacy from…Read More| Canopy Forum
As human technology advances, so does the potential to develop genetically modified humans. Genetically engineered human beings has been a topic of debate in| Science Fiction is Real
PROMETHEUS is an EMBL-born grassroots initiative to promote and optimise impact-driven science| EMBL
Today’s wars kill far more civilians than soldiers. Bioethics must address war not just as an individual tragedy but as a public health disaster.| The Hastings Center
Within military studies, scholars regularly analyze and teach the strategies and victories of great military strategists, whether ancient (Sun Tzu), modern (Napoleon Bonaparte; cf. Chandler 1973), or contemporary (Erwin Rommel). Because these ‘dangerous minds’ are now long dead, scholars are forced to speculate about how they would have acted under various hypothetical scenarios (e.g., Brands…| Blog of the APA
The National Research Act was a landmark in research ethics oversight. But it needs to be updated for modern times, including research with biospecimens, AI, and xenotransplantation.| The Hastings Center for Bioethics
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
