Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The abrupt demise of the AMA Journal of Ethics

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Medical ethics is full of twists and turns, so it is perhaps fitting that the American Medical Association killed its Journal of Ethics, wit...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

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  After being invited to this week's  International Transplant Week in Egypt,  , I was invited to invite others.  (To hear my very brie...
Friday, November 7, 2025

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

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 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week , where I'll give a talk on T...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

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 There is a well developed literature on repugnance connected to food, and here is a recent, interesting example that focuses on the relatio...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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 The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.  Evolving Ethical...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Where snitches make pitches--Corporate hotlines for ethics violations

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 The WSJ has this story on the business of corporate hotlines for whistleblowers to report potential ethics violations. Sex Scandals. Accoun...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Ethical compensation for research participants: an open letter

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 Institutional review boards (IRBs) are often faced with the question of whether research participants should or must be compensated, and ho...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking about the ethical, legal and political relationships between IVF and abortion (in JAMA)

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Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose ab...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The debate over compensating organ donors is heating up

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  It's a new year, and maybe there will be progress in increasing organ donation.  Here's a video in which Elaine Perlman explains...