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Friday, August 25, 2017

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Friday, July 28, 2017

Dying: A Memoir

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Years ago, a palliative care doctor told me that what he knew of a patient’s personality often had little to do with how he or she coped wit...
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Debunking "What the Health"

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There’s a sensational new documentary out on Netflix that seems to have a lot of people talking about going vegan. In the spirit of so m...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Gene editing, techno-optimists

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Gene editing threatens to homogenize society, says Atul Gawande. Aberrant yet valuable characteristics are under threat. Think of George Chu...
Monday, June 26, 2017

The Symptoms of Dying

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You and I, one day we’ll die from the same thing. We’ll call it different names: cancer, diabetes, heart failure, stroke. One organ will fai...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Web MD

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“You can’t list your iPhone as your primary-care physician.”
Monday, May 22, 2017

Siddhartha Mukherjee & Sam Harris on the moral complexity of genetics

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In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate he...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Better dead than "upgraded"?

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“[Many people] are happy to follow the advice of their smartphones or to take whatever drug the doctor prescribes, but when they hear of upg...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Be healthy and happy, Bioethics class of '17!

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Keep in touch. Let me know how I can help you reach your goals!
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Brave New World Final Blog Post: The Beauty and Negativity of Adversity

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Pop warner coaches always tell their players that you grow when it is tough. Living the easy life and becoming complacent with our current s...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The Future of Human Nature pt. 2 - The Moral Limits of Eugenics

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In the first installation (which can be found here ), I attempted to summarize Habermas's  thoughts on "the grown and the made....

Black Man in a White Coat Installment

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Jayla Moore Black Man in a White Coat First Installment I’m so glad that I decided to read “Black Man in a White Coat.” Dr. Damon T...
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Final Installment

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Here is the link to my first *Updated* installment                 http://bioethjpo.blogspot.com/2017/04/final-project-case-against-perfect...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Treatment of Someone with a Mental Illness

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     Mental Illness is receiving a lot of attention from researchers now-a-days compared to earlier times. This has led to many developments...
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Anna D. Final Post Assignment -- Part Two

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On Osheroff, Medical Ethics, and a Doctor’s Duty **I apologize for the editing because I've had to post this using my cell phone. ...
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Because there wasn't time fr my presentation

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In the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, there was a little girl named Lia who had a severe form of epilepsy called Lenox-Gesta...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Final Post Assignment Part 2:The Parent-Child Resemblances Model and The Child of the Famous Model from Clone Being

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Two more models of analysis discussed within Clone Being: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions were the Parent-Child Resemblan...
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Life with a Rare Genetic Disease: The Science, the Suffering and the Hope

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Two new books — “Mercies in Disguise” by Gina Kolata and “The Family Gene” by Joselin Linder — look at how individuals cope with devastatin...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Sydney Smith's Final Report Installment II: The Biophilia Hypothesis

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The Biophilia Hypothesis in  Florence Williams'  The Nature Fix “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” —Hen...
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