Op-Ed: Can a Pill Make You Limitless?March 23, 2011 |
While the new film, Limitless, is a familiar Hollywood treatment, it also shines a light on important and unaddressed neuroethics challenges
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Dan Callahan Thinsplains ObesityJanuary 25, 2013 |
Dan O’Connor on a close relative of ‘mansplaining’. He calls it ‘thinsplaining’. It’s where people who aren’t overweight assume that people who are overweight need their problem explained to them in detail.
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What Keeps Nurses Up At Night?May 28, 2014 |
We are launching a national dialogue with nurses to understand the contours of the ethical challenges that face the profession. Join the conversation and share your insights and experiences
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Op-Ed: Modifying MemoriesJune 8, 2011 |
Should we erase and replace bad memories?
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What Do We Gain or Lose by Regulating 23andMe?November 27, 2013 |
Our Leila Jamal argues that, “we must keep the big picture in sight, and not let a tiff between the FDA and 23andMe hinder creative new ways of communicating and teaching about human genomics”
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Social Media and the Idea of the Medical ProfessionJuly 7, 2011 |
When patients get turned into customers, it’s no surprise that they talk about it online
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Coke’s Unconscionable New AdJanuary 15, 2013 |
Advertising is inherently self-serving, that’s its job. No one expects a corporate or political Ad to be a PSA or deliver a health education message. But self-serving is one thing, and unethical is quite another
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The Climate Crisis Calls For Fewer ChildrenSeptember 12, 2016 |
Our Travis Rieder continues the debate about climate change and the ethics of having children, via The Conversation
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