Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Thursday, November 21, 2024

If I don't do it someone else will: markets and morals

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  Here's a paper reporting an experiment that suggests that people are more willing to ignore the negative externalities they impose on ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AI assisted job applications (and application screening)

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  NBC news has the story: AI is supposed to make applying to jobs easier — but it might be creating another problem Companies have touted ne...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Income inequality, risk, and repugnance by Hauge, Kverndokk, and Lange

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Two recent papers by   Karen Hauge ,  Snorre Kverndokk , and  Andreas Lange  report on the roles played by inequality and risk in causing re...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Arguments against paying for plasma and other Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) have a growing, often lifesaving role in modern medicine, from breast milk for premature babies, to kidne...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Abortion on the ballot

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 And in other news, we're in new territory for the American experiment.  This will surely have effects on controversial markets (among o...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Payments for election-related actions

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  Buying votes is illegal, but other election related offers may seem odd but are legal.   The Guardian has the story. ‘There are certain th...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

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There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The NAS proposes that bans on studying marijuana and its effects should be relaxed

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 The National Academy of Sciences has just issued a new report on marijuana and public health.  Among their recommendations is that bans on ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Should fox hunters be a protected minority?

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  The NYT reports on the question: Fox Hunters in the U.K. Want Protected Status Under Discrimination Law. A lobbying group is preparing a b...