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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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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. A full video of the event is available below. By James R.

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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’

Bill of Health

The book explains that despite these events, DEG adulteration continues due to regulatory failures. In fact, before publishing the book, the authors petitioned the government, highlighting glaring regulatory issues, but the government turned a blind eye. India has had at least five major cases of DEG poisoning in the past.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Soekoe and Davis, both South African lawyers involved in litigation relating to transparency in vaccine contracts between the Government and pharmaceutical companies , detail the successful vindication of the right to access to information, entrenched in the South African Constitution and legislation.

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Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action

Bill of Health

Yet, in the face of extreme weather events, the needs and priorities of disabled people have been repeatedly overlooked in the provision of evacuation warnings, emergency transport, shelters and health care.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

Bill of Health

Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. Focusing on a wide range of events ( flooding , fires and hurricanes ), these perspectives offer important practical insights for how we can make policies for pets at war. Yet, disasters are not wars.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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