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Bioethics, Psychedelic Therapy Abuse, and the Risk of Ethics Washing

Bill of Health

By Tehseen Noorani and Neşe Devenot Introduction The academic discipline of bioethics is becoming a prominent arena for the discussion of ethics abuses in psychedelic therapy. Challenges of the Psychedelic Ecosystem What ought to be demanded of bioethical harm reduction work in this context?

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Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

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By Donrich Thaldar On the issue of human genome editing (HGE), attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge, as highlighted by my team’s findings from a recent deliberative public engagement study. ” (Not one study participant relied on this objection during the more than 20 hours of deliberations.)

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

She teaches Psychedelic Bioethics at The Ohio State University, and she previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Emma Tumilty, PhD is a bioethicist and lecturer in the School of Medicine at Deakin University.

Bioethics 359
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Can Rights Make Any Difference for Access to Health? Insights from a Scoping Review on Constitutional Rights for the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All

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Luciano Bottini Filho is a Lecturer in Human Rights at Sheffield Hallam University and Affiliated Researcher with the Global Health and Human Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

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Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

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Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.

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New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making

Bill of Health

The study offered participants a prompt drawn from classical debates in bioethics on the ethical status of advance directives — documents composed while at full cognitive abilities that direct certain medical treatment in the event that the author later loses mental capacity.

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