The Misguided Conversation around Medical Crowdfunding
Heartbreak. Outrage. Urgency. These emotions describe what 22,292 people may have felt over five days in 2019 when they ...
September 26, 2022
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 ...
August 11, 2021
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics...
July 30, 2021
Dying of Inequality and Republicanness: Questioning Metzl on Whiteness
by G.M. Trujillo, Jr., Ph.D. Critics and academics laud Jonathan Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness. But unlike many academic ...
July 15, 2021
Vaccine Passports: Alleviate Stranger Danger!
by Brian M Cummings M.D. and John J. Paris S.J. Vaccine passports a...
May 3, 2021
Immortal Surgeon General: C. Everett Koop, 40 years on
By Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, MBA The remarkable impact on America of bearded, Presbyterian social conservative C. Eve...
March 27, 2021
Resurrecting the Presidential Commission For The Study of Bioethical Issues With Public En...
by Naomi Scheinerman, PhD The Biden-Harris Administration has a wonderful opportunity, particularly amidst a pandemic in...
March 9, 2021
Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and American Healthcare
by Susan L. Smith, PhD On either side of our country’s northern border, outrage is brewing about the rich getting prio...
February 11, 2021
Deny Vaccination to Undocumented Immigrants? Who Might Benefit?
by Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD Another day, another headline to stoke fear in the minds and hearts of immigrants. This one di...
January 7, 2021
A Tale of Two Nations
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. It is hard to know what to write in the middle of another drawn out ballot counting election in ...
November 4, 2020
Election 2020: The Candidates on Health & Bioethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. During election years, I usually blog about any health and bioethics-related issues raised durin...
October 2, 2020
Ambulance Charters During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Equitable Access to Scarce Resources
by Daniel Du Pont, MD, MBE and Jill Baren, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP, FAAP The novel coronavirus outbreak, like any pandemic, h...
July 20, 2020