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Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits
This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://...
March 15, 2023
In Memoriam: Michael Alan Grodin, MD
Photo Caption: Michael Grodin (left) and George Annas at Nuremberg for the 50th anniversary of the Doctors’ Trial, 1996....
March 14, 2023
The Way We Die: Seeds of Wisdom from President Carter and My Mother
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” – Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President Ou...
March 6, 2023
In Memoriam: Garland Allen
If you called Garland Allen a Bioethicist, he would surely have corrected you and denied that he deserved such a label. ...
February 20, 2023
Top read essays
We Asked For Racial Equity And They Gave Us Pig Hearts
by Keisha Ray, PhD Here is a list of just some of the things that contribute to Black people’s inequitable access to pro...
January 20, 2022
The Limits of Our Social Lens on Abortion Laws (I’ll Take my Sunglasses Off)
You might ask what sunbathing topless at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland and having an abortion have in common. Well, ...
January 12, 2022
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Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits
This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://...
March 15, 2023
ChatGPT Ethics: Temptations of Progress
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that processes and generates natural language text, offering human-li...
February 10, 2023
They Won’t Call It Rape If He Was Trying To Help Me: Western Medicine And Rape Culture
Content warning: sexual assault, rape When I was six years old, my dad, who was at the time training to be a medical doc...
January 19, 2023
Sexist Language is No Joke
Though this post is about sexist language, I will start with a brief foray into linguistics and philosophy of language t...
October 17, 2022