Medicine Evan Arnet | 13 Apr 2022 Insulin and American Healthcare What kind of economic and political intervention might be warranted to fix the current state of affairs?
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Elective Disability and Body Integrity Dysphoria Is a doctor's decision to assist patients in realizing their disabled identity a violation of the Hippocratic oath? 9 Mar 2022 | Richard Gibson
Rise of the Human-Animal Hybrids: The Ethics of Xenotransplantation The jury is still out on the ethics surrounding this modern miracle. 10 Feb 2022 | Evan Arnet
The Heartless Matter of Organ Transplantation and COVID Vaccination What considerations belong in our discussions about distributing such a scarce and valuable resource? 2 Feb 2022 | Richard Gibson
Informed Consent and the Joe Rogan Experience At what point might providing information actually harm patient's agency? 31 Jan 2022 | Kenneth Boyd
Defining Death: One Size Fits All? What consequences might our demarcation of death's domain have for the living? 19 Jan 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Hotline Ping: Chatbots as Medical Counselors? Does distrust of healthcare automation come from legitimate moral concern or blind confidence in the personal touch? 1 Dec 2021 | Megan Fritts
Individual Rights, Collective Interests, and Vaccine Mandates Is there any justifying the state's strong-arming and bullying in the name of its citizens' public health? 21 Oct 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and the Dangers of Scientific Preprints Information sharing during the pandemic suggests a desperate need to make clear exactly what it means to trust in science. 3 Sep 2021 | Kenneth Boyd
COVID Vaccines and Primary Care Are doctors violating their professional code in choosing who they will or will not treat, or, as always, simply minimizing their patients' risk and possible harm? 30 Aug 2021 | Megan Fritts
Intellectual Property and the Right of Necessity How can we honor our obligation to those in need without creating additional kinds of unfairness? 18 Aug 2021 | Marshall Bierson
Medical Challenge Trials: Time to Embrace the Challenge? Are there any good moral reasons for refusing to experiment with willing participants in the face of an emergency? 15 Jul 2021 | Giles Howdle
What Morgellons Disease Teaches Us about Empathy What kind of compassion and consideration can be shown to those we do not believe and lack the ability to trust? 14 Jul 2021 | Beatrice Harvey
Autonomy, Euthanasia, and Non-Terminal Patients What constraints, if any, should we place on the freedom to pursue physician-assisted suicide, especially when it comes to those whose reasoning may be impaired? 28 Jun 2021 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Re-Thinking the Nature of Bodies The promise of organ printing raises important questions about how we understand our physical makeup. 19 May 2021 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Underrepresentation in Clinical Trials and COVID-19 Our dedication to the value of efficiency means that the historically marginalized stay marginalized. 8 Apr 2021 | Lauren LaMore
The Politics of Depression The growing sense of unease, distress, and exhaustion that many experience is a symptom of a political and social disease. 4 Nov 2020 | Beatrice Harvey
Morality Pills Aren't Enough Empathy may not be the only obstacle standing in the way of depoliticizing mask use. 21 Aug 2020 | Kenneth Boyd
Who Should Get the Vaccine First? Our basic equality needs to be respected in processes that determine who gets what. 21 Aug 2020 | Benjamin Rossi
Life-Life Tradeoffs in the Midst of a Pandemic On what basis should we decide where our limited medical resources go? What is just? What is fair? Is any decision unobjectionable? 20 Aug 2020 | Katerina Psaroudaki
Re-evaluating Addiction: The Immoral Moralizing of Alcoholics Anonymous With no evidence of effectiveness and some troubling threads in its doctrines, AA has a powerful reputation it hasn't earned. 21 Jul 2020 | Beatrice Harvey