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Bioethics

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  1. Health Law Prof Blog

    Slipping on Slippery Slope Arguments

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Roberto fumagalli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Slipping on Slippery Slope Arguments, 34 (4) Bioethics 412 (2020):Slippery slope arguments (SSAs) are used in a wide range of philosophical debates, but…

  2. Health Law Prof Blog

    The Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law Presents Webinar Today – Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    The Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law Presents Webinar Today - Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can DoIn this webinar, experts in medicine, health care…

  3. Health Law Prof Blog

    Social Justice, Civil Rights, and Bioethics

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Kathy L. Cerminara (Nova Southeastern University), Social Justice, Civil Rights, and Bioethics, Stetson L. Rev. (2020, Forthcoming):A stunning confluence of events in the United States in the first few months…

  4. The Faculty Lounge

    Speaking of challenge trials

    Speaking of challenge trials . . .this panel that I recently moderated for Duke Science & Society is quite informative, I think. It features Marc Lipsitch, who is a professor…

  5. Health Law Prof Blog

    Chapter: “Health Law and Ethics”

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    William M. Sage (University of Texas), I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School), Allison K. Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania), Chapter: “Health Law and Ethics,” U. Penn. Law School Public Law Research…

  6. The Right Coast

    ‘Morality pills’ may be the US’s best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist

    By Thomas A. Smith

    It seems that the U.S. is not currently equipped to cooperatively lower the risk confronting us. Many are instead pinning their hopes on the rapid development and distribution of an…

  7. Health Law Prof Blog

    Savior Siblings, Protective Progeny, and Parental Determinism in the age of CRISPR-Cas

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Barbara Pfeffer Billauer (Institute of World Politics), Savior Siblings, Protective Progeny, and Parental Determinism in the age of CRISPR-Cas, SSRN:The current state of technology and law allows for creating children,…

  8. Health Law Prof Blog

    Ageism and CoVid 19: First They Lock the Oldsters Up, Then They Refuse The Ventilators. What’s Next?

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Barbara Pfeffer Billauer (Institute of World Politics), Ageism and CoVid 19: First They Lock the Oldsters Up, Then They Refuse The Ventilators. What’s Next? SSRN:Most commentators claim that age is…

  9. Health Law Prof Blog

    Family Refusal of Emergency Medical Treatment in China: An Investigation from Legal, Empirical and Ethical Perspectives

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Pingyue Jin, Xinqing Zhang, Family Refusal of Emergency Medical Treatment in China: An Investigation from Legal, Empirical and Ethical Perspectives, 34 Bioethics 306 (2020):This paper is an analysis of the…

  10. Health Law Prof Blog

    It is Better to Be Ignorant of Our Moral Enhancement: A Reply to Zambrano

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Parker Crutchfield (Western Michigan University), It is Better to Be Ignorant of Our Moral Enhancement: A Reply to Zambrano, 34 Bioethics 190 (2020):In a recent issue of Bioethics, I argued…