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On Antiscience and Antisemitism
This article provides both historical and recent perspectives on the links between antiscience and antisemitism, together with the author's personal experience as a Jewish vaccine scientist targeted by both dark forces. New approaches to uncoupling antisemitism from antiscience, while combating both, are essential for saving lives and preserving democratic values.PMID:38661936 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.a902035 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Hotez Source Type: research

Lives Cut Short: suicide among adolescent females 
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):437-450. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902036.ABSTRACTSuicide is a worldwide public health issue, and suicide ideation and behavior among adolescents, females in particular, have been increasing. Focusing on the risk factors that are unique to adolescents and adolescent females can help tailor and inform prevention strategies. There are unique biological, psychological, social, and societal factors that contribute to suicide ideation and behavior among adolescent females. Some of these include hormonal fluctuations and sensitivity, developing brain systems, impacts of social media, maladaptive coping...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Meaghan Stacy Jay Schulkin Source Type: research

Accepting and Embracing Our Mortality
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):451-460. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902037.ABSTRACTAging and death need to be seen as a single reality, aging-and-death. Separating them largely voids the lessons to be learned from aging, and the benefits of seeing life as a whole and learning a new sense of beauty, meaning, hope, and love. All the distinctive experiences central to our sense of ourselves as human beings are tied to recognition of our mortality. Living a full life means accepting and embracing death as not only inevitable, but necessary and desirable.PMID:38661938 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.a902037 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Larry R Churchill Source Type: research

2020: what COVID taught us about women in medicine 
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):461-467. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902038.ABSTRACTAs Vice Chair of Clinical Services of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, I choose to work where clinical services need most attention. As a woman, I want to show up where we can be seen and show up in the best possible way. Just as COVID began, I found myself doing clinical shifts in the newly created psychiatry emergency room. I became part of a front-line team, where "I" became "We," facing an unknown enemy. Not only was my work life upended, but my personal life was too, as I rushed to help my daughter, a medical student, care for her so...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Alison M Heru Source Type: research

Science in the Public Mind: sources and consequences of antipathy 
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):468-477. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902039.ABSTRACTPublic attitudes toward science in the United States can profoundly affect national well-being, and even national security. We live in a time when these attitudes are considerably more negative than usual. This critical assessment identifies a number of contributors to public antipathy toward science, some of which are intrinsic to the nature of science and as old as science itself, and some of which are external to science, have arisen recently, and may be unique to the present. Historic examples of scientific developments and challenges and two ...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: William H Woodruff Source Type: research

Conceptualizing Endometriosis Pain Through Metaphors
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):478-491. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902040.ABSTRACTBiomedical and philosophical traditions postulate the experience of pain either as quantifiable or as sociocultural phenomena. This critical assessment offers a close reading of Lara Parker's Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics (2020) and Abby Norman's Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (2018), analyzing the authors' use of language as a tool to comprehend and communicate pain. Norman's and Parker's memoirs narrate the lived experience of endometriosis, a condition diagnosed almo...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Julia M Abraham None Rajasekaran Source Type: research

What Is Light in Dark Times?
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(3):492-501. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902041.ABSTRACTAlisse Waterston and Charlotte Corden's Light in Dark Times (2020) began as an address by the president of the American Anthropological Association and was transformed into "a work of art and anthropology" by a member of the audience. The result was a coauthored book-length graphic essay that is expansive in subject matter, and in the representation of ideas, scholars, and questions about what it means to be human and how we will pass the time that is given us on earth. Light and dark are central to the visual representations that serve as the bac...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Sue E Estroff Source Type: research

Erratum
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):vii. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0012.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38662003 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0012 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Introduction to the Special Section
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):1-2. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0000.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38662004 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0000 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Franklin G Miller Source Type: research

Elephants, Personhood, and Moral Status
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):3-14. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0001.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the lens of moral status to explore the question of whether elephants ought to count as persons under the law. After distinguishing descriptive, moral, and legal concepts of personhood, the author argues that elephants are (descriptively) at least "borderline persons," justifying an attribution of full moral status and, thereby, a solid basis for legal personhood. A final section examines broad implications of elephant personhood.PMID:38662005 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0001 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: David DeGrazia Source Type: research

Amicus Brief
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):15-28. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0013.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38662006 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0013 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Martha C Nussbaum Source Type: research

Amicus Brief
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):29-37. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0002.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38662007 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0002 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Christine M Korsgaard Source Type: research

Herd Immunity: History, Concepts, and Ethical Rationale
This article provides a conceptual framework tailored to uncover the ethical rationale behind such strategies. Clarity on this issue is important in order to facilitate the terms of the political debate when tackling future health emergencies.PMID:38662008 | DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0003 (Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Davide Vecchi Giorgio Airoldi Source Type: research

The Diversity of Institutions Conducting Biomedical Research
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):58-88. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0004.ABSTRACTBiomedical research in the United States has contributed enormously to science and human health and is conducted in several thousand institutions that vary widely in their histories, missions, operations, size, and cultures. Though these institutional differences have important consequences for the research they conduct, the organizational taxonomy of US biomedical research has received scant systematic attention. Consequently, many observers and even participants are surprisingly unaware of important distinguishing attributes of these diverse institut...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jeffrey S Flier Source Type: research

The Impact of Transmissible Microbes: How the Cystic Fibrosis Community Mobilized Against Cepacia
Perspect Biol Med. 2023;66(1):89-106. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2023.0005.ABSTRACTLong before COVID-19 made social distancing familiar, people with cystic fibrosis (CF) already practiced such behaviors. CF is held up as a classic example of genetic disease, yet people with CF are also susceptible to bacteria from the environment and from other CF patients. Starting in the 1980s, a bacterial epidemic in the CF population highlighted clashing priorities of connection, physical safety, and environmental protection. Policymakers ultimately called for the physical separation of people with CF from one another via recommendations that re...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Rebecca Mueller Source Type: research