Parental Accessibility Rights for Emergency and Negligent Treatment (PARENT) Act
This week, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Parental Accessibility Rights for Emergency and Negligent Treatment (PARENT) Act. The bill is designed to ensure that parents have access to policies regarding the care and medical records of their... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 6, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
How Hospital Stays Resemble Enhanced Interrogation
Ken Mishark is a hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic who formerly served as a physician in the military. Early in his career, he interviewed for a job in the CIA. That experience might explain why he paid attention when the CIA declassified a manual it had ... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Islamic Ethics, Covid-19 Vaccination, and the Concept of Harm
Vaccine hesitancy is a concern around the world, but negative attitudes among Muslims in particular toward some coronavirus vaccines have been the focus of attention in the media. Some scholars in Asia recently issued fatwa against the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine. Media coverage has characterized the Muslim world as a hotspot for vaccine hesitancy, but experts point out biases in this coverage and explain the underlying reasons.
The post Islamic Ethics, Covid-19 Vaccination, and the Concept of Harm appeared first on The Hastings Center. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care Covid-19 Ethics Resource Center Covid-19 vaccination Hastings Bioethics Forum Islam syndicated vaccine hesitancy Source Type: blogs
Ethics of the GameStop Short Squeeze
By Doug McConnell Recently a large, loosely coordinated group of individual ‘retail investors’ have been buying up stocks that certain hedge funds had bet against (i.e. ‘shorted’). In doing so, the retail investors have driven up the price of those stocks. This has caused hedge funds that shorted the stock to lose billions of dollars […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Doug McConnell Tags: Health Care professional ethics #collusion #gamestonks #GameStop #GME #incitement #market manipulation #shortsqueeze #TheSqueezening business ethics Doug McConnell's Posts Epistemic Ethics Information Ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
Update on Tinslee Lewis & Other Lawsuits on the Texas Advance Directive Act
Texas Right to Life has a fair summary and comparison of the two active cases involving the section of the Texas Advance Directives Act that permits clinicians to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment without patient or family consent. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Pandemics are Not New: What Can Indigenous Worldviews Teach Us?
by Jennifer McCurdy, PhD, BSN, MH, HEC-C
Pandemics are not new to human experience. Stories of the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and waves of smallpox, cholera, and measles have a place in the collective social memory. But something happens viscerally when the experience is first-hand. A witnessing of overrun emergency rooms, dropping oxygen saturations, empty grocery store shelves, and make-shift morgues on semi-trucks stir a common dread. Health care workers and other essential personnel experience waves of exhaustion, anger, moral distress, and a fear of death concurrent with a deep sense of duty toward humanity.R...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 4, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Cultural Ethics Featured Posts Public Health Uncategorized #diaryofaplagueyear COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Guest Post: What Is The Case For Virtual Schooling?
Written by Thomas Moller-Nielsen News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met with widespread support in the British press. Doctors, public health specialists, and even teaching unions similarly applauded the decision. (Nurseries, which have remained open […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 4, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Ethics Tags: Education Ethics Health Care children COVID-19 Guest Post harm lockdown Pandemic Ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
New Lawsuit Challenges Brain Death Legitimacy
For years, Dr. Sadanandan Ganapathy has contested the conceptual and ethical legitimacy of brain death. Now, Ganapathy has filed an action in the Kerala High Court (No. 2436/2021) to "prevent deliberate, wrong and premature certification of brain ... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 4, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
