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"Hidden Health Taxes" Neither Ethical Nor Sustainable

May 28, 2009
It seems as though we don't have much choice when it comes to health care. Either we are going to pay what the most recent research is calling a "hidden health tax" of something on the order of $1,017 per...

Have We Become Too Dependent On Our Medicine Cabinet?

May 20, 2009
Christian Science Monitor is asking an important question: "Have we become too dependent on our medicine cabinet?" Medical ethicists, physicians, and even patients and their advocates who are...

Lose Your Job, Keep Your Drugs

May 18, 2009
According to Judith Graham at the Chicago Tribune's Triage blog, Pfizer has created a new program to allow the unemployed--and thus uninsured--to keep access to their prescription drugs for one...

Victims and Vectors

May 7, 2009
If you haven't read enough about pandemics and ethics or the swine flu yet (and seriously who hasn't read enough about this), the OUP Blog is recommending some additional reading written by...

UPDATE: Your Source for Swine Flu and Ethics: pandemic.bioethics.net

May 5, 2009
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access...

Summer Johnson Talks about AJOB's December Issue

Dec 15, 2009
On the Center for Practical Bioethics' blog, you can hear me talk about the ethical questions raised by the use of placebos in clinical practice and the other topics addressed by the Target Articles in the December issue of AJOB,...

Come One, Come All--To Neuroscience Boot Camp!

Dec 11, 2009
Our colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania are having another "Neuroscience Boot Camp". To learn more, read below or click the link above. Summer Johnson, PhD ********************************** Calling all bioethicists who'd like to know more...

Apples, Oranges, and Comas by Art Caplan

Dec 5, 2009
Wesley Smith has a new column out, in which he inappropriately uses the case in Belgium of Rom Houben to argue that somehow Terri Schiavo should not have been permitted to have her feeding tube removed. Smith argues that a...

AJOB Editor Glenn McGee To Be the New John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics and AJOB to Move to Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City

Nov 27, 2009
Glenn McGee is moving to Kansas City to assume the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics. So, we are moving! The Center for Practical Bioethics is about to become home to the editorial office...

A NEW Presidential Commission on Bioethics. We Christen Thee, Pucks-Bee. Let God Be Praised.

Nov 26, 2009
We all have a great deal to be thankful this Thanksgiving, and now we have one more thing to add to our list: another presidential bioethics commission. President Obama has made good on the implicit and then explicit promise to...




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