“ We Are Not Here to Save Bioethics: ” Amplifying Diverse Voices in Bioethics
by Keisha Ray, PhD Originally presented at “Race and Bioethics: Amplifying Diverse Voices,” sponsored by Columbia University Bioethics. See it here: link My co-panelists and I have been tasked with thinking about the ways that bioethics does, or in most cases, does not consider issues of race, including racism, and systemic health inequities. Although I am very happy to have this opportunity to speak about bioethics because it is something very dear to me, and I couldn’t see myself doing anything else, this opportunity feels like another moment where a bioethicist of color has to defend her work, her plac...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 20, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Diversity Ethics Featured Posts Professionalism Race Uncategorized racism Source Type: blogs

“ We Are Not Here to Save Bioethics: ” Amplifying Diverse Voices in Bioethics
by Keisha Ray, PhD Originally presented at “Race and Bioethics: Amplifying Diverse Voices,” sponsored by Columbia University Bioethics. My co-panelists and I have been tasked with thinking about the ways that bioethics does, or in most cases, does not consider issues of race, including racism, and systemic health inequities. Although I am very happy to have this opportunity to speak about bioethics because it is something very dear to me, and I couldn’t see myself doing anything else, this opportunity feels like another moment where a bioethicist of color has to defend her work, her place in bioethics, ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 20, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Diversity Ethics Featured Posts Professionalism Race Uncategorized racism Source Type: blogs

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 works, it caught public attention. Metzl toured the country to give talks, and white supremacists even tried to shut down one of his events. The book deserves the praise. It enables readers to grasp that no one is immune from the ills of racism, even white people. The book’s thesis is simple: “a host of complex anxieties prompt increasing numbers of white Americans … to support right-wing politicians and policies, even when these policies actually harm white Americans at growing rates.… (So...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 15, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Health Policy & Insurance Race death and dying whiteness Source Type: blogs

AJOB Journal Student Cover Art
Original art and artist’s blurbs are presented in collaboration with the students of the University of Illinois Chicago program in Biomedical Visualization.  by Sydney Agger, BA While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown promise as a diagnostic tool for individuals with depression, I wanted to create an illustration that evoked the feeling behind the ethical challenges described by Laacke et al. in his article about AI, social media, and depression. Throughout the process of creating this illustration my main goal was to maintain a sense of uneasiness between the figure being observed and their shadowy obser...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 30, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Art Featured Posts Journal Cover Art Source Type: blogs

College Vaccination Mandates do not Violate Medical Ethics
by Nathan Nobis PhD In a June 14, 2021 opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal, physician-ethicist Aaron Kheriaty and law professor Gerard V. Bradley argue that “University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics” (archived version). Their core claim is that requiring college students to be vaccinated for COVID treats these students as “mere means,” using them like “guinea pigs” for the potential benefit of others, and that’s unethical. As a medical ethicist, I want to explain why college vaccination requirements decidedly do not violate the core principles of medical ethics which include avoiding or l...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 30, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Ethics Featured Posts Vaccines Covid-19 vaccine Source Type: blogs

Environmental Toxins Are a Threat to Informed Consent and Justice. How is Bioethics Going to Respond?
by Keisha Ray PhD and Jane Cooper MBE One of the inequities to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic is an increase in the disproportionate effects of environmental toxins on poor people and/or people of color. Additionally, during the pandemic Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people disproportionately experienced higher rates of Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from the virus. New research, however, has revealed a link between air pollution and likelihood of death from Covid-19; people who live in highly polluted areas are more likely to die once they have the Covid-19 virus.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Environmental Ethics Featured Posts Informed Consent Justice Source Type: blogs

AIDD, Autonomy, and Military Ethics
by Sally J. Scholz, PhD This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. In “Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and Depression,” Laacke and colleagues (2021) consider the ethical implications of artificial intelligence depression detector (AIDD) tools to assist practitioners in diagnosing depression or posttraumatic stress. Although the revised account of health-related autonomy (HRDA) offers important correctives in the era of digital data, I argue that additional considerations ought to operate in institutional contexts where autonomy is already compromised, such as in the mi...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 23, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Artificial Intelligence Editorial-AJOB Ethics Featured Posts Military autonomy military ethics Source Type: blogs

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 cells (autologous therapies) to treat or potentially cure disabling conditions are very restrictive. Under most circumstances stem cells extracted from one person, processed, and then administered to the same person are legally considered “drugs” and must be subjected to the rather long and expensive clinical trial process. Nevertheless, and despite the persistent threat of FDA warning letters and lawsuits, an increasing number of clinics offer autologous stem cell therapy (SCT).… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 18, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Ethics Disability Featured Posts Justice Science Stem Cells Vulnerable Populations Source Type: blogs

Multiracial Healthcare: What about us?
By Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD and Jennifer L. Young, PhD  June 12 was Loving Day â€“ a celebration of the 1967 landmark court case that finally allowed interracial couples to marry. As multiracial people of color and as scholars, we reflect on our diversity – not  just in our features – but in our experiences as Americans, particularly in healthcare. Reassuring Results?: Dr. Martschenko’s Reflection In 2019, on a cold snowy night in Chicago I got a call from my primary care physician. She… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 17, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Trials & Studies Cultural Featured Posts Health Care Health Disparities Race Social Justice Biracial implicit bias Multiracial Representation Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 Proved That Americans With Disabilities Need Biden ’s Infrastructure Plan. Lawmakers Must Not Negotiate it Away.
By Clayton Jones, LCDR, CHC, USN, Kevin Mintz, PhD, Andrew Peterson, PhD America is winning the battle against COVID-19. As of mid-June, over 50% of Americans have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and pandemic-related deaths are on the decline. But with this breath of optimism comes time to reflect on the Americans we failed, and time to focus on improving our infrastructure to prevent future disasters.    For Americans with disabilities, President Biden’s infrastructure proposal, with its focus on care services, is a necessary step in this direction.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Disability Featured Posts Health Care Health Disparities Health Regulation & Law Justice Politics Public Health Social Justice Biden administration community-based Lawmakers Public-Health Infrastructure Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 Proved That Americans With Disabilities Need Biden ’s Infrastructure Plan. Lawmakers Must Not Negotiate it Away.
By Clayton Jones, LCDR, CHC, USN, Kevin Mintz, PhD, Andrew Peterson, PhD America is winning the battle against COVID-19. As of mid-June, over 50% of Americans have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and pandemic-related deaths are on the decline. But with this breath of optimism comes time to reflect on the Americans we failed, and time to focus on improving our infrastructure to prevent future disasters.    For Americans with disabilities, President Biden’s infrastructure proposal, with its focus on care services, is a necessary step in this direction.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Disability Featured Posts Health Care Health Disparities Health Regulation & Law Justice Politics Public Health Social Justice Biden administration community-based Lawmakers Public-Health Infrastructure Source Type: blogs

In Memoriam – Bob Orr, Clinical Ethics Pioneer
by Robert Macauley MD Next to “Clinical Ethicist” in the dictionary, there really ought to be a photo of Bob Orr. Not only was he at the forefront of what was then a nascent field, his writing, teaching, and mentoring influenced and molded the next generation of clinical ethicists. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago in 1990—back when that was one of the few such training programs in existence—he went on to start the clinical ethics program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, before returning to his adopted home state to start ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 11, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Ethics Featured Posts In Memoriam Source Type: blogs

In Memoriam – Bob Orr, Clinical Ethics Pioneer
by Robert Macauley MD Next to “Clinical Ethicist” in the dictionary, there really ought to be a photo of Bob Orr. Not only was he at the forefront of what was then a nascent field, his writing, teaching, and mentoring influenced and molded the next generation of clinical ethicists. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago in 1990—back when that was one of the few such training programs in existence—he went on to start the clinical ethics program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, before returning to his adopted home state t...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 11, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Ethics Featured Posts In Memoriam Source Type: blogs

Barcode Me
by Anne Zimmerman, JD, MS I use the phrase “Barcode me” to verbalize the idea that my data is my own and that when anyone stands to use it for financial gain, I should be paid. The big data landscape with its massive capabilities can trace data at many points in the aggregation process. Pieces of metadata are merged into larger aggregate pools and deidentified along the way. Whether I am barcoded or represented by a QR code or even a shape or algorithm, there are ways to compensate me.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Anne Zimmerman Tags: Artificial Intelligence Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Source Type: blogs

Preparing For The Next Generation of Ethical Challenges Concerning Heritable Human Genome Editing
by Robert Klitzman, MD This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2021.1913894 On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the National Academy of Science, and the British Royal Society, with members from 10 countries, issued its Report, recommending caution in future uses of heritable human genome editing (HHGE) (National Academy of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences and the Royal Society 2...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 2, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robert Klitzman Tags: Editorial-AJOB Ethics Featured Posts Genetics Source Type: blogs