Most Recent Articles from Ethics & Medicine

• THINK IT'S GREED? IT MIGHT BE PDMD: A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 

  Clinical research scandals. Drug company bribes. You've probably heard horror stories about doctors and their industry ties. You may even criticize...

  10/01/09 by Keller, Marc E; Bieler, Bert M · More from publication

• ON HUMAN BIOENHANCEMENTS 

  Human beings are obsessive innovators. Homo sapiens (knower) is by nature Homo faber (fabricator). Life without what philosopher Michael Novak has...

  10/01/09 by Mitchell, C Ben · More from publication

• FACEBOOK AND THE FUSIFORM GYRUS 

  Ethics has gone digital. From Twitter to Tweeples, the ever accelerating world of online connectivity is reshaping the culture of bioethical...

  10/01/09 by Cheshire, William P · More from publication

• CONTINUING "FUTILE" ICU SUPPORT AT RELATIVE'S INSISTENCE 

  The following consultation report is based on a real clinical dilemma that led to a request for an ethics consultation. Some details have been...

  10/01/09 by Orr, Robert D · More from publication

• TRACKING CHROMOSOMES, CASTRATING DWARVES: UNINFORMED CONSENT AND EUGENIC RESEARCH 

  Abstract In 1929 Charles B. Davenport, a prominent biologist and leader in the American eugenics movement, carried out an experimental castration...

  10/01/09 by Lombardo, Paul A · More from publication

• FUTURE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, THE 

  If a number of pundits are correct, we have already taken some initial steps toward creating a posthuman future.1 The goal of this project is...

  10/01/09 by Waters, Brent · More from publication

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