>I’m going to go out on a limb and post the story I just told online, elsewhere. It’s more personal than bioethics, but maybe it will help someone else. At the end I’ll give a couple of secrets for surviving in the medical world when you don’t have the usual disease or the usual course … Continue reading
The Hastings Center has a new blog which contains a piece by Hilde Lindemann which rightly calls last week’s South Dakota legislation banning most abortions a “direct attack on Roe v. Wade.” The author says that this law ignores the undue gender inequality of burden on the mother and enforces “specific performance” on the pregnant … Continue reading
>The Hastings Center has a new blog which contains a piece by Hilde Lindemann which rightly calls last week’s South Dakota legislation banning most abortions a “direct attack on Roe v. Wade.” The author says that this law ignores the undue gender inequality of burden on the mother and enforces “specific performance” on the pregnant … Continue reading
Glenn McGee, the editor of The American Journal of Bioethics, a professor of Medical Ethics at Albany (New York) Medical School, and the blogger at blog.bioethics.net, has a column at The Scientist that typifies bioethic reasoning. It seems that scientists have a right to our tax dollars as seed money for whatever enterprise they want … Continue reading
>Glenn McGee, the editor of The American Journal of Bioethics, a professor of Medical Ethics at Albany (New York) Medical School, and the blogger at blog.bioethics.net, has a column at The Scientist that typifies bioethic reasoning. It seems that scientists have a right to our tax dollars as seed money for whatever enterprise they want … Continue reading
Dr. Shari deSilva has posted an insightful article concerning the future of neurology, medicine, conscience and ethics on her blog, “Clueless Christian.” She says that she has not seen a single new baby with Downs’ Syndrome in 2 years, despite being the only neurologist who treats children for 300 miles. Dr. deSilva has observed the … Continue reading
>Dr. Shari deSilva has posted an insightful article concerning the future of neurology, medicine, conscience and ethics on her blog, “Clueless Christian.” She says that she has not seen a single new baby with Downs’ Syndrome in 2 years, despite being the only neurologist who treats children for 300 miles. Dr. deSilva has observed the … Continue reading
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology’s Research Institute has announced that a team has discovered a mesenchymal stem cell present in tooth germ cells: Tooth germ disappears as a tooth is formed, but that of a wisdom tooth stays in the jawbone of a human until the age of 10 to 16, … Continue reading
>Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology’s Research Institute has announced that a team has discovered a mesenchymal stem cell present in tooth germ cells: Tooth germ disappears as a tooth is formed, but that of a wisdom tooth stays in the jawbone of a human until the age of 10 to 16, … Continue reading
Well, by all means, don’t worry their pretty little heads about it. The patronizing pro-abortion faction of the Indiana Senate is blocking the addition of informed consent concerning the potential of pain felt by unborn children who are being killed. Because we don’t know. And because it might shock someone. And, besides, it’s so rare. … Continue reading