Cultural, Education, Medical Humanities, Philosophy & Ethics, Race, Science, Social Justice
The Folly of Apolitical Science
By Johnathan Flowers, PhD A persistent myth in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Medicine) fields argues that sci...
Subject: Science
Clinical Trials & Studies, Genetics, Research Ethics, Science
Share Your ELSI Research Tools
by Deanne Dunbar Dolan, PhD I write today to encourage ELSI scholars to deposit their published and unpublished res...
Clinical Ethics, Justice, Science, Stem Cells, Vulnerable Populations
Stem Cell Bioethics vs. Disability Rights
by A. Rahman Ford, JD, PhD There can be no question that current FDA regulations regarding the use of one’s own stem cel...
Vaccine Approval and Public Trust: The Dynamic Factors Influencing When a COVID-19 Vaccine...
by Berklee Robins, MD, MA & Ashley Sweet, MD, MBE Vaccines are approved when it is clear that the benefits to the in...
Gender Disparities, Professional Ethics, Science, Social Justice
Considering Systemic Discrimination in Tenure
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week I was speaking with a friend who works at another university and we were discussing on...
“Thank You for Your Sacrifice”: De Facto Rationing Based on Snake Oil Pitches
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Dale is a 45-year-old woman who lives in Southern California. She has been a patient of Kaiser- ...
Glossary for a Pandemic
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The last time the United States faced a pandemic on its shores was in 1976, when the threat of t...
Clinical Ethics, Education, Professionalism, Public Health, Science
“If Masks Don’t Work, Why Are You Wearing One?”
by Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC I haven’t had this question from a patient yet, but I know it’s coming. The information ...
Environmental Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Science, Technology
“Living robots”: Ethical questions about Xenobots
by Simon Coghlan, Ph.D. and Kobi Leins, Ph.D. Xenobots have been called “novel living machines” and “living robots”. A c...
The Price for Eternal Youth is $1 Million and Dumping Ethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As the legend goes, in the 16th Century, when he was 51 years of age, Ponce de Leon received per...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Science
Randomized Trials are Deeply Offensive
This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by John D. Lantos, MD In this issue, Ma...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Editorial-AJOB, Science
Frontiers in Bioethics
This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by David Magnus, Ph.D. Last year a bioe...