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A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill of Health

The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. No doubt her doctors’ behavior was not consistent with today’s standards of informed consent.

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

Health systems should also be built upon a basic set of guidelines and principles, made through legislation or legally enforceable guidance documents, that ensure ethical doctor and patient relationships in medical decision-making and treatment.

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

Healthcare It News

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. The new narrative affects not only data privacy, but it affects "the basic experience of going to the doctor."

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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.

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Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

Bill of Health

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. Because twice, doctors told members of my family that due to brain injury, I was about to die. The other doctors and therapists told me I was brain damaged, and that everyone knows the brain cannot heal. By Leslie C. I’m a tenured law professor at UNLV.

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303 Creative, Transgender Rights, and the Ongoing Culture Wars

Bill of Health

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

Bill of Health

To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. I’m concerned about that,” she said.

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