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Womb Transplants Now a Step Closer by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics It’s a development that could take your breath away, and raises interesting and profound questions about our reproductive future.Researchers in London performed womb tra ... Read on »

A Health Care Horror Story by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo is a 35 year-old married mother who works as a nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She has worked in the operating room since 2004.When s ... Read on »

Should Doctors Apologize? (19) by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics When medical errors happen, should doctors apologize to their patients? Doesn’t that idea simply guarantee a costly lawsuit? What are the ethical implications of all thi ... Read on »

Cleaning House by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The President’s Council on Bioethics has been disbanded. The White House has told the members last week that their services are no longer required.Appointed in November, ... Read on »

Who is to Blame? by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Ellen Goodman is an op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe. Her nationally-syndicated column is usually thoughtful, well-written and balanced. As a liberal, she often critiques ... Read on »

Removing Ethics from Medicine? (18) by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In a radio interview, Center for Bioethics Director Dennis Sullivan discusses the elimination of the Ethics Department at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine.Source ... Read on »

Courage Takes Many Forms by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Prestigious scholar Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. She was informed last December that she was to ... Read on »

The British Cord Blood Dilemma by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics It’s ironic that the United Kingdom, one of the countries on the forefront of new biomedical research, (including embryo-destructive stem cell research), has no organize ... Read on »

On Oprah, No Less! by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Sometimes the truth has a way of getting out. On March 29th, Michael J. Fox and Dr. Oz were guests on the Oprah show. The topic, of course, was stem cell research. The medical ... Read on »

The Elephant in the Room by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics On March 9th, President Obama followed through on a campaign promise and issued an executive order. His signature overturned the ban, established in August, 2001, on governmen ... Read on »

The Coming Bioethics Tsunami (17) by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics New biomedical technologies, combined with our current economic crisis and growing skepticism over values in our society, have formed a “perfect wave” of ethical c ... Read on »

Pro-Life or Pro-Environment: Poles Apart? (16) by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics February’s podcast is about the seemingly wide chasm between pro-life ideals and environmental activism. Why is it so difficult to advocate for the two ideas at the same ... Read on »

Shifting Standards in International Research Ethics by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Declaration of Helsinki has long been regarded as the leading international standard on human research ethics. Drafted in 1964, the Declaration upholds basic patient righ ... Read on »

The Neuhaus Legacy by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Father Richard John Neuhaus died this morning at the age of 72. It would be hard to overestimate the influence of this godly man and gifted academic.Fr. Neuhaus, a Lutheran pa ... Read on »

Ethics and Practicality in the Stem Cell Debate by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Exciting new success stories with non-embryonic stem cells have come to light in recent weeks. Unlike embryonic stem cells, which destroy the embryo when harvested, sources of ... Read on »

Womb for Rent - The Ethics of Surrogate Motherhood (15) by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Our podcast for November is a discussion of the complex issue of surrogate motherhood. In many parts of the world it is legal, but is it ethical? We present case study of a Br ... Read on »

Fueling the Fire: New Prenatal DNA Tests Spark Further Debate by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A new gene test now claims to have the ability to detect a wider range of genetic disorders in fetuses. The test, called comparative genomic hybridization, uses “gene c ... Read on »

A Duty to Die? by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Alzheimer’s patients are a drain on Britain’s National Health Service, and should therefore consider ending their lives. So claims the always controversial Barones ... Read on »

A New Idea in Stem Cell Research? by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics It was too good to be true. A recent report from Reuters documents a new technique that produces early stem cells, but without destroying embryos. But the devil is in the deta ... Read on »

A 'Genetic Outlaw' Speaks Out by Soulful Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A law professor in Minneapolis has recently become an "outlaw" in the eyes of some. Her crime? She chose not to have an abortion when she received a prenatal diagnosis of Down ... Read on »

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