The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: John Stuart Mill and Mandates
By Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD John Stuart Mill proclaimed, “Over himself, over his own body and mi...
August 11, 2021
#FreeBritney: Autonomy, Conservatorships, and Mental Health in America
By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD In a small but significant change ...
August 2, 2021
When the Medical Director Abuses the Residents Under his Charge
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a news item reported in Rolling Stone, NPR, and The Houston Chronicle, the medical director o...
April 14, 2020
How Conducting “Usual Care” Research Might Affect Obtaining Consent
Editorials appear in cooperation with the American Journal of Bioethics. This article and its associated pieces can be f...
April 18, 2019
BioethicsTV (March 5-9, 2019): #The Resident, #The Good Doctor, #New Amsterdam
“Examining ethical issues in TV medical dramas” Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 16): Money corrupts, patient aut...
March 11, 2019
BioethicsTV (January 28-February 1, 2019): #TheResident
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This week was a quiet one as many regular dramas were pre-empted and others did not present ethi...
February 3, 2019
BioethicsTV (January 21-25): #TheResident #TheGoodDoctor #NewAmsterdam #ChicagoMed
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 1; Episode 11): Listening to patients; Jump to The Good Doctor (Sea...
January 25, 2019
BioethicsTV (January 15-17, 2019): #TheResident, #TheGoodDoctor, #NewAmsterdam, #ChicagoMe...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 10): What would you do doctor?a>;Jump to The Good Doc...
January 18, 2019
Ending Privacy As We Know It
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Threats to privacy and confidentiality swirl around. Each day the newspaper seems to report on s...
January 10, 2019
Hospitals Selling Patient Records To Data Brokers: A Violation of Patient Trust and Autono...
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. I recently received an email from a community organization which asked the following question: “...
December 12, 2018
Could an ELF Have Saved Baselga?
by Lisa Kearns, MS, MA, and Arthur Caplan, PhD A few months ago we called for a new conflict of interest (COI) disclosur...
November 2, 2018
BioethicsTV (October 22-26): #TheResident, #NewAmsterdam, #ChicagoMed
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. “Exploring ethical issues in TV medical dramas” Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 5): Buyi...
October 26, 2018