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Bioethics
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Proskauer on Privacy
Governing the Code of Life
What if the story of your life was written at birth- a “future diary” available for someone to read? The decoding of the human genome over a decade ago held…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Thaddeus Pope: Publishing Health Law Scholarship for Clinicians
With the close of the spring semester, the thoughts of most law professors turn to scholarship, to that “big” summer writing project. Not me. My summer is, instead, committed to…
The Faculty Lounge
Goldberg Guest Post on Sterilization
The following is a guest post from my friend Daniel Goldberg of East Carolina University's Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies Department. I hope we'll hear some more from him as the…
The Faculty Lounge
Parents and the Privacy of Children
NPR's "Morning Edition" today featured a fascinating book, Fragile Beginnings, about medical care for very premature infants. Written by a physician, the book traces the history of treatment, the remarkable…
The Faculty Lounge
Uterine Transplants?
Inspired by Kim Krawiec's example, I thought I'd share a topic from my course on Social Regulation of the Body: Should surgeons transplant a uterus into a woman who was…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Gingrich Promises to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and Examine Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization
The Washington Post - PostPolitics: Gingrich vows to ban embryonic stem-cell research, questions in vitro practice, by Karen Tumulty:As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of…
Ad Law Access
Bioethics Commission Study Released
By Kelley Drye
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released its report “Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research.” The report was requested by President Obama to determine…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Kathy Cerminara: Bioethics and Disability
I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. In this, my last guest-blogger posting of this series, I thought I’d give you a break from talk about hospice care. Rather, I’d…
PropertyProf Blog
Marsh Presents The Law of the Dead
By propertyprof
Last Friday at the University of Kentucky, PropertyProf's very own Tanya Marsh presented her work on the system of laws that govern dead bodies in America. It was, without a…
Health Law Prof Blog
An Icarian Arc: From Therapy to Enhancement to Self-Harm?
The publication of The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World, edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, has capped a series of recent responses to medical technology at the…