Publish date
Volume
24
Issue
8
Publish date
Volume
24
Issue
8
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in American society. The cabinet picks of the current administration reflect this sentiment, with a whole roster of appointees who have little to no expertise in the departments they are overseeing. This is nowhere more evident than with the impending confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, as the head of the Department […]
Patient-centred measurement examines constructs that are not visible outside a patient’s perspective: quality of life, how an illness impacts someone’s work or relationships, or satisfaction with a treatment. Usually assessed via questionnaire instruments, patient-centred measurement is pivotal to ensuring that health care has value. Leah McClimans’ Patient-Centred Measurement responds to a central puzzle about these […]
This editorial appears in the February 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. In this issue, Chapman et al. recommend large changes to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to address group harms in research. We agree with the concerns underlying their recommendations. Researchers have a responsibility to foresee and prevent group harms from arising out of their […]
This editorial appears in the February 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. In June 2024, NPR News reported on the story of Sun Kai, who created an AI driven avatar of his dead mother (voice, image, and likeness), that he converses with daily. A similar company, Super Brain, offers a similar service, which it […]
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