AJOB Volume 12 Issue 10
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An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community
As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to pursue an unwarranted, ill-advised, and frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to […]
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Laundering Public Health: Using Autism to Revive Eugenics
This editorial appears in the August Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics “Better babies.” “Fitter families.” “Survival of the fittest.” “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” These phrases are not merely historical reminders of the United States’ regrettable eugenic past but are appearing in an increasingly eugenic present. Eugenics may have seemed dormant, but […]
In the News…“I Know What I Meant:” The Ethical Responsibility of Clinical Documentation
This essay is a part of our “In the News…” series, where bioethicists give their take on popular news stories. The medical record rarely makes headlines. In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, however, the medical record has become part of the evidence used to understand the mental state of a mother accused of killing her […]