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I Attended an ASBH Meeting During a Pandemic: Am I Less of a Bioethicist?

This year, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) 2022 annual meeting returned to an in-person format in Portland, Oregon after the 2020 and 2021 meetings were held virtually, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The choice to return to an in-person format was met with some excitement and gratitude from some people, while others […]

November 7, 2022

Vaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking

By Govind Persad, JD, PhD The United States, after wasting over 15 million doses since March and with a stockpile of 150 million more in freezers, reportedly ordered 200 million more vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech for delivery starting in October. These orders may be motivated by the expectation of broad access to “booster” vaccines in the United States. The World Health […]

October 6, 2021

Time to Stand Up For The Morality of Vaccine Mandates

Arthur Caplan, PhD ABPD Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For All Eligible Americans The Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) represents the leadership of nearly 100 academic bioethics programs at medical centers and universities across North America. In the face of the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been medically shown to greatly […]

October 4, 2021

Hey Siri, How Do I Say “Appendicitis” in Hungarian?

by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans were considered a biohazard due to the country’s poor handling of COVID-19, I was bumming around Central Europe. Tracing the Danube, I was in Budapest, chowing down on bowls of goulash in between gulps of crisp pilsner. The night before taking a train to Slovenia, […]

September 20, 2021