The BI at ASBHOctober 8, 2014 |
The Berman Institute will be well represented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 16-19 in San Diego. Watch for us on Twitter: #ASBH14
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Ebola Patient’s Family QuarantinedOctober 2, 2014 |
Questions arise about preparations and whether family members have been treated with adequate respect. A failure to meet basic moral obligations?
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Nancy Kass: Ebola Patient Needs Best TreatmentOctober 2, 2014 |
Berman Institute deputy director for public health, Nancy Kass, comments on public health ethics the first patient with Ebola in the US
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Physician Payment Sunshine ActSeptember 30, 2014 |
Our Stephanie Morain cautions that new transparency rules and open payments database may reveal relationships that are prone to misinterpretation
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Risks of Mobile Access to Patient Health InformationSeptember 29, 2014 |
Electronic health records present a number of new risks to patient privacy – risks that are compounded by mobile access
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Social Media and the Boundaries of BioethicsSeptember 26, 2014 |
Bioethics’ boundaries must naturally expand to encompass new challenges posed by changes in social technology
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Fear, Trust, and Attacks on Ebola WorkersSeptember 24, 2014 |
As health workers fan out across the Ebola-stricken areas of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, they are facing a battle on two fronts: fighting Ebola and addressing the fears, rumors, and myths
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Protections for Pregnant WorkersSeptember 24, 2014 |
Classification of pregnancy as a “disability” to sanction changes in work is a matter of policy rather than medicine
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