We’re playing this “Facebook” game, because it links millions and millions of young people, patients, those seeking clinical trials, and those who want to find a hot date [or others at Yale, where Facebook was invented and thrives] to bioethics. These are people who would not find bioethics blogs or even bioethics news and resources and frankly would hear about discussion and debate concerning medical humanities only when it came up on the national news or over a beer. So help us out by joining the bioethics blog FACEBOOK PAGE by clicking that link, which should instantly make you a “fan” and thus increase the presence of the bioethics information on the blog in the broader news stream that is the “face” of facebook. Don’t ask me what that means. I just know it’s true. I learned all this stuff when I was writing Beyond Genetics, my last book, about how portable computers and the Internet are the future of consumer genetics. It’s weird, yes. But it’s true.
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