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Bioethics
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The Faculty Lounge
Medical Research Subjects: Guinea Pigs, Laborers, Or Altruists?
Cari Romm has a great article in The Atlantic, The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig: What It’s Like To Earn A Living As A Research Subject In Clinical Trials.…
The Right Coast
Second Planned Parenthood baby body part selling video may be worse than the first « Hot Air
After the last Baby Body Parts Sales video we were promised that there were more to come and the next shoe seems to have dropped today. Life News has released…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
New Startup Partnering With Fertility Clinic To Screen Egg And Sperm Donors For Genetic Diseases
A new startup company called GenePeeks is partnering with the Pacific Northwest Fertility clinic in Seattle to screen donated sperm and eggs for potential genetic diseases. Some critics have argued…
The Faculty Lounge
“Aging with a Plan” (Sharona Hoffman)
Professor Sharona Hoffman (CWRU Law) recently published a book on preparing for aging (Aging with a Plan, 2015) and I had the opportunity to interview her about her impetus for…
Health Law Prof Blog
‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast
This week we are joined by Mark Rothstein, the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the Founding Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Britain Becomes First Country to Allow So-Called “Three-Person Babies”
The Guardian: Britain's House of Lords approves conception of three person babies, by Hannah Devlin:Britain has become the first country in the world to permit the use of “three-person IVF” to…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Three Parent Babies Opposed by EU MEPs
As I have previously discussed, in early February Britain's House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that would allow the genetic modification of babies to prevent birth defects,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Andrew McGee, Acting to Let Someone Die, 29 Bioethics 74 (2015).Sandra K. Prucka, Lester J. Arnold, John E. Brandt, Sandra Gilardi, Lea Harty, Feng Hong, Joanne Malia, David J. Pulford,…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Presidential Bioethics Commission Seeks Comments on Ethical Implications of Public Health Response to Ebola Outbreak & Other Emergencies
On December 8, 2014, HHS is publishing a notice announcing that the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment on ethical considerations related to public…
Health Law Prof Blog
Introducing Guest Blogger Professor Rebecca Dresser
HealthLawProf Blog is very pleased to welcome our first guest blogger for the month of December, Professor of Law Rebecca Dresser. The following is her short bio:Rebecca Dresser is the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor…