Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 22, 2021
The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field.
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We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism.
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Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 29, 2022
We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. By Chloe Reichel. As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. Browse the list below.
Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
By Nate Holdren. Every day in the pandemic, many people’s lives end, and others are made irrevocably worse. [1]. These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives.
Please Keep Your Masks On
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
By Chloe Reichel. What is more important: your comfort, or a person’s life? These are the stakes of the move to unmask in the U.S. . The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance , which suggests that many people in the U.S.
Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity
Bill of Health
MARCH 22, 2022
Brooke Ellison , PhD, MPP is an Associate Professor of Applied Bioethics at Stony Brook University. Bioethics Blog Symposia Build Back Better? By Brooke Ellison.
A New Theory for Gene Ownership
Bill of Health
AUGUST 31, 2022
The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. Yet courts are routinely called on to answer questions about the boundaries of ownership in bioethics. By James Toomey.
A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)
Bill of Health
JANUARY 7, 2022
This series, which will run in four parts, has been adapted from “ A year in, how has Biden done on pandemic response? ” which was originally published on January 5, 2022 on Medium. Read the first and second parts here. By Justin Feldman.
New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making
Bill of Health
JULY 18, 2022
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. By James Toomey.
The International Weaponization of Health Data
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 18, 2022
By Matthew Chun. International collaboration through the sharing of health data is crucial for advancing human health. But it also comes with risks — risks that countries around the world seem increasingly unwilling to take.
Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory
Bill of Health
MARCH 8, 2023
Bioethics Biotechnology Criminal Law CRISPR Featured Gene Editing Health Law Policy Human Subjects Research Informed Consent Matthew Chun Research Misconduct Student Fellows criminal justice crispr babies Gene editing human genome editing
The Only Moral Abortion is…
Bill of Health
JULY 21, 2022
The Association of Bioethics Program Directors ’ (ABPD) Bioethics Guidance for the Post Dobbs-Landscape helped crystalize my position on this matter. Access to care is a core bioethical consideration and it means supporting legal abortion broadly. By Carmel Shachar.
When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good
Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2023
Bioethics Blog Symposia Daniel Goldberg Health Law Policy Public Health The End of Public Health? By Daniel Goldberg The nirvana fallacy “is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives.”
The Pandemic Policy Excuse of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’
Bill of Health
AUGUST 23, 2022
By Daniel Goldberg. Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible.
Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Aparajita Lath Bioethics FDA Generic Drugs Global Health Health Law Policy History Human Rights Medical Safety Pharmaceuticals Public Health Student Fellows Book Review drug law drug regulation IndiaBy Aparajita Lath.
The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Bioethics Biotechnology Enhancement Genetics International Personhood AIDS Gene editing heritable human genome editing HIV HIV/AIDS human genome human genome editing south africa tb tuberculosisBy Donrich Thaldar.
Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. By Sharona Hoffman.
Restricting Reproductive Rights During the War on Drugs: Intersectional Regimes of Surveillance and Criminalization That Harm Us All
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Abortion Bioethics Criminal Law Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering Human Rights Judicial Opinions Medical Quality Medical Safety Pregnancy Privacy Public Health Race Social Determinants of Health Supreme Court abortion ban dobbs Dobbs v. By Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J.
Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula
Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
Bioethics Doctor-Patient Relationship Empirical Informed Consent Leah Pierson Medical Quality Patient Care Professional Regulation Public Health Scientific Evidence Student Fellows Education Ethics ethics curricula ethics training health professions Medical Education medical school
Book Review: ‘Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust’ by Mikkael A. Sekeres
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Bioethics Biotechnology FDA FDA in the 21st Century Conference Matthew Chun Medical Safety Pharmaceuticals access to medicine Book Review drug law drug regulation Patient autonomy pharmaceuticalBy Matthew Chun.
Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 20, 2022
By Matthew Chun. A scientist’s high-tech approach to assisted suicide is already available for use in Switzerland and is actively being campaigned for in the United Kingdom. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr.
Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
Bill of Health
MARCH 7, 2022
Bioethics Blog Symposia Build Back Better? By Chloe Reichel, Marissa Mery, and Michael Ashley Stein. This week marks the two-year anniversary of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declaring COVID-19 a pandemic.
Building a Progressive Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in South Africa
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Abortion Bioethics Genetics Health Law Policy International Judicial Opinions Pregnancy Privacy Reproductive Technology Assisted Reproductive Technologies Assisted Reproductive Technology sex selectionBy Donrich Thaldar.
An Ob/Gyn Reflects on Dobbs: ‘The Time Has Passed for Neutrality’
Bill of Health
AUGUST 1, 2022
Abortion Bioethics Featured Judicial Opinions Liability Medical Quality Medical Safety Patient Care Pregnancy Public Health Supreme Court abog abortion ban abortion ban exceptions American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists dobbs Dobbs v. By Samantha DeAndrade.
We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues. By Leah Pierson. Health professions students are often required to complete training in ethics.
Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 14, 2022
By Myrisha S. Lewis. Despite religious and ethical objections, assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in vitro fertilization and egg freezing, manages to flourish in the United States, with some states and companies even creating regimes for its insurance coverage.
Restricting Access to Microdosing is Morally Wrong
Bill of Health
APRIL 12, 2022
Many bioethical theories affirm that people should be free to pursue interventions that support their flourishing, so long as those interventions do not harm other individuals or groups. As with all things bioethical, the picture is more nuanced than it appears. By Erin Sharoni.
Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Announcements Bioethics Blog Symposia Call for Abstracts Disability Environment Health Law Policy Informed Consent Patient Care Petrie-Flom Center Public Health Publications Social Determinants of Health call for abstracts call for submissions climate climate change Ethics Law public policy
Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine
Bill of Health
MAY 4, 2022
Bioethics Featured Global Health History Human Rights Immigration International Public Health additional protocols Ethics geneva conventions Health Law health law policy nuremberg Politics public health putin refugee studies Rights ukraine vladimir putin war war crimesBy Leonard Rubenstein.
Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens
Bill of Health
MARCH 29, 2022
By Xochitl L. Mendez. The coronavirus pandemic changed the world in countless ways, and for a moment it challenged the pre-pandemic separation of — in Hannah Arendt’s terms — the Private and the Public.
Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 22, 2022
This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. Bioethics Disability Doctor-Patient Relationship Health Law Policy Leslie Griffin Medical Quality Mental Health Neuroscience Patient Care brain injury Medicine neurology neurorehab neurorehabilitation
Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?
Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
An active bioethics and medical law community is needed to influence the interpretation of the law in Courts to set standards that complement the right to health. By Luciano Bottini Filho.
Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War
Bill of Health
APRIL 27, 2022
(Photo: Sign at the central train station in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) that offers free support for pet owners coming from Ukraine. Courtesy of Kristin Sandvik.). By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. Introduction.
Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies
Bill of Health
MARCH 28, 2022
By James Lytle. Recent guidance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) encouraged several states to adopt policies that prioritized race or ethnicity in the allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments and oral antivirals for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By Chloe Reichel and Benjamin A. Barsky. Last spring, the United States crossed the bleak and preventable 1,000,000-death mark for lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this symposium, our hope is to acknowledge — and mourn — this current era of mass suffering and death.
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