Resource - Columbia University Division of Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics

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630 West 168th Street

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New York

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NY 10032

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Healthcare is the Care of the Healthy

Western society has a digital mentality; digitality is everywhere. What is not digital, simply does not exist. This derives from the “calculative mindset”, for which only what has a name – and can either be calculated in money or can be rationally described – has a right to citizenship. This is evident in medicine: only […]

June 22, 2022

A Democracy in Peril

Our founding fathers envisioned us as a constitution based democratic society and penned a document that successfully provided guiding tenants which until now stood the test of time. Currently our democratic principles are being tested as never before. Every elected official taking office for a federal government position is required to take an oath to […]

June 17, 2022

A Disability Perspective on Advance Directives

After the passage of the Patient Self-determination Act of 1991, advance directives were instituted to ensure patients’ control of their treatment in circumstances when their explicit consent may be difficult or impossible to attain. In recent years, however, advance directives (ADs) have come under criticism as ineffective or flawed. In a Journal of Palliative Medicine […]

June 7, 2022

Why Bioethics Needs Pride: Anti-LGBTQ Laws and Health Disparities

So far this year there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws introduced in the US, already breaking last year’s record, with about half of them specifically targeting transgender people. While some of these laws focus on medical care, such as laws prohibiting or even criminalizing pediatric gender affirming care, many of them target other areas […]

June 2, 2022