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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs. Impairment vs. disability.

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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Bill of Health

In July 2020, when Mrs. Kuciemba tested positive, exposures were relatively discrete, and the dominant strain of the virus was not nearly as transmissible as later variants. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

For the 2020 launch of its Xbox Series X video game console, Microsoft partnered with dream scientists and the McCann Worldgroup marketing agency to create “Made From Dreams.” When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge.

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The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden

Bill of Health

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Bill of Health

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

Bill of Health

At the global level, in 2016, Ban Ki Moon, then-UN Secretary General appointed me, as one of ten international experts, to the UN Independent Accountability Panel for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in the Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2020). Alicia Ely Yamin J.D. 1991), M.P.H. 1996), Ph.D.