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Bioethics
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The Faculty Lounge
Fellowship Opportunity: The Petrie-Flom Center and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow-in-Residence
Another announcement from our friends at Petrie-Flom Each year the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics hosts several fellows-in-residence. For 2019-20, they are concentrating their fellowships on the Ethics of…
The Right Coast
Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body – MIT Technology Review
In a step that could change the definition of death, researchers have restored circulation to the brains of decapitated pigs and kept the reanimated organs alive for as long as 36 hours.…
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Paying for Canadian Plasma
I’m a signatory (along with a number of economists and ethicists) to this letter to the Expert Panel on Immune Globulin Product Supply and Related Impacts in Canada. The letter…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
A woman with a transplanted uterus just give birth – a first for the U.S.
Washington Post (Dec. 3, 2017): A woman with a transplanted uterus just give birth - a first for the U.S., by Cleve R. Wootson:Doctors at Baylor University have announced that…
PrawfsBlawg
A reflection on “the life issues” in the current moment, and going forward
Main Tuesday, October 03, 2017A reflection on "the life issues" in the current moment, and going forwardMy friends at Notre Dame Magazine (which is, notwithstanding what I'm about to say,…
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Greenwall Foundation Bioethics Scholars Program
The Greenwall Foundation is soliciting Letters of Intent for its Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, a career development award that supports innovative bioethics research by junior faculty members. Each…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Don’t Pull the Plug on Bioethics Mediation: The Use of Mediation in Health Care Settings and End of Life Situations
Amy Moorkamp recently published an Article entitled, Don’t Pull the Plug on Bioethics Mediation: The Use of Mediation in Health Care Settings and End of Life Situations, J. Disp. Resol.…
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Down syndrome in Iceland: The disturbing, eugenics-like reality that can emerge from genetic testing Quartz
In essence, pregnant women in Iceland and presumably their partners are saying that life with disability is not worth living. It is one thing to decide that a child who…
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CBS: Hey, guess how Iceland “virtually eliminated” Down Syndrome? – Hot Air Hot Air
CBS News takes a deep look into Iceland s dramatic reduction in Down Syndrome births, thanks to the use of near-universal genetic screening for pregnant women and the aggressive use…
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CFP: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law and Bioethics
This just in: “Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” Justice William…