Celebrities, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Media Responsibility
Rivaled only in recent times by the AIDS epidemic, COVID has been a dividing force world-wide. It has been a politicized...
February 9, 2022
#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
#MedBikini: A Lesson in Irony and the Pitfalls of Policing Professionalism
by Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, FRCPC The Journal of Vascular Surgery (and Irony) published a rather odd...
July 27, 2020
Public Service Announcement or a Step Too Far
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Tommye Austin is senior vice president and chief nursing officer at University Hospital in San A...
July 8, 2020
The Moderna Vaccine Story is a Cautionary Tale for Coronavirus Reporting
by Jamie Webb MA, MSci ‘An experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing...
May 29, 2020
COVID-19: Weapon, accident or an administration gone batty?
by Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D. and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. For a moment, let’s suppose that the novel coronavirus was produced b...
May 6, 2020
“COVID-19 ‘Immunity Passports’ and Dystopian Segregation: A Few Concerns”
by Daniel W. Tigard, Ph.D. As our evening entertainment during the recent weeks of social distancing, my wife and I have...
April 6, 2020
Preventing the Spread of Mental Symptoms Can Also Help Contain COVID-19
by Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv A novel coronavirus strain has rapidly spread around the world into a pandemic. Country respon...
April 2, 2020
Communicating in a Crisis: Easy to follow steps from a communication professional
by Jay Baglia, Ph.D. In a crisis, citizens seek information. Civic leaders need to address their constituencies regularl...
March 20, 2020
Before Jumping on the COVID-19 Media Wagon, Let’s Ask if We Should
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. COVID-19 (formerly known as “coronavirus”) remains at the top of the health-related news feeds. ...
February 27, 2020
BioethicsTV (Feb. 10-21, 2020): #TheGoodDoctor #NewAmsterdam #ChicagoMed
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 14): Lying; Social Media; Internet Medicine; The Good Doctor ...
February 24, 2020
Film Review – FOR SAMA Bioethics, Humanitarian Law and Withdrawal of Medical Mission
by September Williams, MD FOR SAMA is a documentary film by International Emmy Award winning journalist and film directo...
November 18, 2019