Topic
Bioethics
298 published works
Health Law Prof Blog
The New Eugenics
Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan), The New Eugenics, 71 Syracuse L. Rev. 751 (2021):During the first third of the Twentieth Century, the eugenics movement played a powerful role in…
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Bioethics and the Great Powers
Dov Fox (University of San Diego), Bioethics and the Great Powers, San Diego L. Stud. Paper (forthcoming 2022):Advances in medicine and technology stand poised to transform the way that humans…
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Rethinking Nomenclature for Interspecies Cell Fusions
Dov Fox (University of San Diego), Bryan J. Pavlovic (University of California San Francisco), Nathan Schaefer (University of California San Francisco), Alex Pollen (University of California San Francisco), Rethinking Nomenclature…
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Job Posting: Rutgers University – Open Rank Faculty and Term Endowed Chair
Title: Open Rank Faculty and Term Endowed ChairSummary:The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers University has an open rank faculty opening in ethics and population health. We are open to…
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Job Posting: Baylor College of Medicine – Senior Research Assistant: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of Genomics
Title: Senior Research Assistant: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of GenomicsSummary:Senior Research Assistant: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of Genomics/Ethics & Health Policy Research The Center for Medical Ethics and Health…
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Job Posting: Baylor College of Medicine – Bioethics and Health Policy Faculty (Open Rank)
Title: Bioethics and Health Policy Faculty (Open Rank)Division: Center for Medical Ethics and Health PolWork Location: Houston, TXRequisition ID: 7640The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College…
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Moral Status and the Architects of Principlism
Francis J. Beckwith (Baylor University), Allison Krile Thornton (University of South Alabama), Moral Status and the Architects of Principlism, 45 J. Med. & Phil., 504-520 (2020):In this article, we discuss…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Henrietta Lacks Honored by World Health Organization
By Jamie Abrams
The World Health Organization honored Henrietta Lacks this month. Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman and a young mother, died from cervical cancer on October 4, 1951—just eight months after her…
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Vulnerability in Law and Bioethics
Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University), Vulnerability in Law and Bioethics, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2 (2020):This piece was published as “Vulnerability in Law and Bioethics,” 30 Journal of…
The Right Coast
Pregnant male rat study kindles bioethical debate in China
The paper has been particularly hotly debated among scholars and the public in China, where it was recently among the top-trending subjects on the Chinese social-media platform Weibo. Some researchers…