Continued Erosion of Patient Trust in Electronic Health Records
As more nations introduce electronic health records (EHRs), many patients are wary of revealing personal health informat...
July 5, 2022
Privacy, Honesty, and the Public’s Need to Know in Presidential Medicine
by Mack Lipkin MD & Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. The President’s doctor recently chose to triangulate himself in an ethical/...
October 18, 2020
Duties When an Anonymous Student Health Survey Finds a Hot Spot of Suicidality
Abstract Public health agencies regularly survey randomly selected anonymous students to track drug use, sexual activiti...
Publish date:1st January 1970
Reassessing the Ethics of Molecular HIV Surveillance in the Era of Cluster Detection and Response: Toward HIV Data Justice
Abstract In the United States, clinical HIV data reported to surveillance systems operated by jurisdictional departments...
Publish date:1st January 1970
We Are People, Not Clusters!
Abstract As advocates and scholars, including people living with HIV, we have been engaged in a critical debate over mol...
Publish date:1st January 1970
#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
Who Has A Right to Know A Person is COVID Positive: Lessons from HIV
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a lawsuit this week, a judge in Cook County (IL) ruled against a suburban that wanted to forc...
May 6, 2020
The Value and Ethics of Using Technology to Contain the COVID-19 Epidemic
by Alex Dubov, Ph.D. and Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D. Introduction As the world grapples with COVID-19, experts are calling for...
April 23, 2020
Would You Give Up Your Cell Phone Location Data to Fight COVID?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. One of the most powerful tools that epidemiologists have for containing an outbreak is contact t...
March 25, 2020
The Consumer Electronic Show and The Ethics of Consumer Digital Health
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This week Las Vegas hosted the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where tech companies can sho...
January 10, 2020
Is Public Health Outreach All Sunnyside Up or Is It A Shell Game?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, I received an automated phone call from my local grocery chain saying that I had purc...
January 2, 2020
Top Ten Bioethics Stories of 2019
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. and Keisha Ray, Ph.D. The end of the year usually brings a media blitz of top ten lists for the ...
December 29, 2019