article thumbnail

What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care

Bill of Health

Bollinger and the Fourteenth Amendment In this 2003 case involving the holistic admissions program at the University of Michigan Law School, which was patterned after Harvard’s, the Supreme Court revisited its decision in Bakke. Gregory Curfman , M.D. He is also the Deputy Editor of JAMA.

Bioethics 187
article thumbnail

Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

Bill of Health

The extension of international protection to Ukrainian pets raises issues with respect to the legitimate expectations of future refugee populations. Seen from that angle, taking pets at war seriously is indeed a proper ethics challenge. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (LL.M

article thumbnail

Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics.

ACA 102