Bioethics.net Website Review

a new year is a time for thinking about the past and looking forward to the future. over winter break, i read yuval noah harari’s given our current technological trajectories. reading the book was entertaining, and it also raised many questions of what the future of ethics and bioethics might hold if harari’s predictions hold. to begin this new year then, i want to spend some time thinking about the. america bleeds purple: aca challenge and mid-term results underscore bi-partisan insecurity on health care. hospitals selling patient records to data brokers: a violation of patient trust and autonomy. the lack of access to gender-affirming surgery represents a significant unmet health care need within the transgender community, how should we punish criminal offenders? one prima facie attractive punishment is administering a mandatory. “i didn’t have anything to decide, i wanted to help my kids”—an interview-based study of consent procedures for sampling. written by nana cecilie halmsted kongsholm, jesper las*en & peter sandøe. background: individual, comprehensive, and written informed consent is broadly considered an ethical obligation in research involving the. a safe prenatal genetic test is gaining popularity with young moms-to-be and their doctors. nipt’s entry into the mainstream has raised some questions as busy health-care providers scramble to figure out how to offer it en mas*e to a public with varying understanding of genetic testing and little access to genetic counselors.. scientists have been studying cancers in a very strange way for decades. instead of using generic “culture media” like emem (or its more concentrated variant, dulbecco’s modified eagle’s medium, known as dmem), it might be better to start creating concoctions that more accurately reflect the chemical profiles of our bodies. that’s what saverio tardito did in 2012, when he joined the cancer research uk beatson institute in glasgow. “around 90 percent of the papers in