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bnuckols

Conservative Christian Family Doctor, promoting conservative news and views. (Hot Air under the right wing!)
bnuckols has written 1642 posts for LifeEthics

>More on End of Life – Family Dilemmas

>Increased medical technology creates a burden on family decision makers and loved ones as well as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Listen to the (free) National Public Radio interview with journalist Stephen Kiernan on medical care at the end of life, from December 4, 2006. It’s not surprising that there would be misunderstandings between doctors and … Continue reading

Agreement: no euthanasia for children

Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!

>Agreement: no euthanasia for children

>Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!

Human enough to think about

Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading

>Human enough to think about

>Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading

On stem cells and media bias

I report frequently on the media and its bias against reporting successes in adult stem cell research. Sometimes, what appears to bias is just early results and sometimes I’m wrong – there is no bias. JivinJehosaphat mentioned my blog from yesterday comparing the reports on non-embryonic stem cells and embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s, and … Continue reading

>On stem cells and media bias

>I report frequently on the media and its bias against reporting successes in adult stem cell research. Sometimes, what appears to bias is just early results and sometimes I’m wrong – there is no bias. JivinJehosaphat mentioned my blog from yesterday comparing the reports on non-embryonic stem cells and embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s, and … Continue reading

Embronic stem cells: twice the coverage

Google News search on new Parkinson’s stem cell research. Reseach on adult stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 5 citations – none of the big names. Embryonic stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 10 news articles, including UPI, Science Daily and Monsters and Critics.

>Embronic stem cells: twice the coverage

>Google News search on new Parkinson’s stem cell research. Reseach on adult stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 5 citations – none of the big names. Embryonic stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 10 news articles, including UPI, Science Daily and Monsters and Critics.

Can you study medical ethics?

I’m still working on my article on age at marriage and sexual initiation changes. I’m trying to learn to post the graphics that I think are useful. Preview, tweak, delete. In the meantime, what about all the docs and student docs who are learning how to treat patients ethically? Deleting their mistakes is not an … Continue reading

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