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It’s Time to Abandon the Phrase “Passive Euthanasia”
This post is part of our "Bioethics in Focus" series featuring experts from the Center for Bioethics community.
Reimagining Language Equity in Healthcare
This post is part of our "Bioethics in Focus" series featuring experts from the Center for Bioethics community.
Harm Reduction Practice in Rural Minnesota: Observations from the Field
This post is part of our "Bioethics in Focus" series featuring experts from the Center for Bioethics community.
Ethical Issues in Health Systems Science: A Framework for Understanding How Care is Delivered within Our Health System
Academic small talk often begins by asking, “What is your field of research?” As a Family Physician and Bioethicist, I’ve worked on many different projects over two decades. My answer was becoming lengthy and convoluted - until five years…
Public Attitudes about Allocating COVID-19 Vaccines: Is the Public Aligned with Equity?
Just months into the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it was clear that the impact was vastly unequal by race. Native American, Hispanic, and Black populations had elevated mortality compared to White and Asian populations. These disparities…
Population Screening for Genetic Disease: Are We Ready for the Next Phase of Personalized Medicine?
At the start of the new millennium, the first draft of the Human Genome Project was completed and announced by then-President Bill Clinton. In his speech on the achievement, the President praised the discovery and proclaimed that humankind…
Food Activism: Voices and Action from Ghana, West Africa
About 800 million of the world’s 8 billion people are food insecure; 3.1 billion are unable to afford a healthy diet, and about 2 billion people are obese (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO, 2022). With food scarcity and obesity gripping the…
Bioethics & Gender Affirming Care
In 2021, 34 states introduced 147 Anti-Transgender bills. Within this political landscape, gender affirming care for children is getting a lot of attention these days. It is a complicated issue that brings many concerns, questions,…
Anthropologist or Ethicist: Paul Farmer, MD 1959-2022
Paul Farmer, MD and Harvard professor died in Rwanda recently. He was a prolific writer, an incisive analyst of health disparities, and a passionate advocate for global health as necessary for the well-being of the poor and for the well-…
Measuring What Matters: For Whom the Monitor Beeps
“For several nights in succession, my nurse would enter my room sometime around 11:00pm, awaken me, then start on her tasks: check my vitals, check my blood sugars, check, measure, and empty the drainage from my various tubes. She would…