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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 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. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution. By James Toomey.

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication. I hope that this symposium contributes to furthering conversations and generating new questions in the context of a broader “critical turn” within psychedelic studies.

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

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. The State has never staged nationwide public debates followed by the creation of specific frameworks to address patient autonomy and informed consent.

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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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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

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. There are also questions about how to assess whether students will make more ethical decisions in practice.

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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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