Harvard's MBE is an excellent way to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to address complex moral challenges in biomedicine, and a wonderful opportunity to meet new colleagues and form lifelong friendships. Learn more: bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/apply #bioethics #healthcare #education

This reminded me of two important lessons in bioethics. First, literature and music often convey truths where words alone fail. Second, careful consideration of how to approach something controversial can make all the difference in whether one is heard. youtube.com/watch?v=-hsNZX…

Diana Andersen, Bill Hercules and I argue that because architecture and design elements are being used to influence and control patients and residents, the built environment itself should be considered a medical intervention. thehastingscenter.org/the-bioethics-…, Diana Anderson, MD, Bill Hercules

Occupy Democrats

Schools have an obligation to ensure crimes committed on campus are reported to police and not substitute potentially biased proceedings in their stead. The student voices: Make Fairfax Highschool Take Accountability - Sign the Petition! chng.it/DDWdpYV2 via Change.org

There is no legitimate social interest in allowing venture capital into hospitals. This is likely the biggest threat to the ethical provision of healthcare we face today. We cannot allow someone else’s duty to shareholders replace our duty to patients. thenation.com/article/econom…

I can’t think of anything less democratic than taking over a publicly traded corporation and making it private to suit the whims of a single individual who doesn’t like the rules constructed through various social pressures to govern it. The ends never justify the means Elon.

‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

Post Roe, it may be time to take up the question of bodily sovereignty directly. Rather than arguing about various privacy rights, the fundamental issue is the right to be free from having one’s body interfered with—even to save the life of another.

Our Constitution assumes bodily sovereignty. Protecting others, while laudable, cannot be a requirement of the State. In my mind, the Supreme Court may maintain its power, but has lost its legitimacy in failing to protect this most fundamental requirement of freedom.

Kelli Garcia

Watching the news tonight it makes me wonder: how many people would have to be killed in mass shootings for Republicans to act? I fear the answer is there is no number, no point at which Republicans would limit the NRA’s profiteering (which lines their own campaign coffers).

That sort of ideology is a sickness-one that in medical contexts might be evidence of incapacity—the inability to weigh the risks, benefits, and alternatives to a course of action. It’s time for ethicists to translate the reasoning we use in medicine to other moral tragedies.

The greatest, and perhaps only ethical action Charles Philip Arthur George could take would be to end the lasting blight upon the notion that all people are created equal; renounce the ‘Crown’ and the notion of purported ‘Royalty.’ Anachronism incarnate, it’s time is long past.

Leaving a nice visit with family on Bainbridge Island and heading to Portland for ASBH 22. Looking forward to seeing all my friends and colleagues and the fascinating discussions to come! #ASBH22

Exciting work on mining natural language and ACECS coding by Jessica Ginsberg and her Wellstar colleagues portends greater understanding of causes and effects in clinical ethics. Recommend: 9:30 -10:45 am, D136: Quality and Competence in Clinical Ethics Consultation. #ASBH2022

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson confronted the lawyer arguing for outlawing affirmative action with how his proposed college admissions system would privilege a white legacy applicant over a Black descendent of slaves. Listen here -->

I'd like to share the first of a series of webinar discussions focusing on pediatric ethics for community practitioners. It is a collaboration between the ASBH PEAG and the journal Pediatric Ethicscope. Case: shared decision-making for a febrile infant. pediatricethicscope.org/peag/