Your Body Belongs to Us for Experimentation
The obligation of researchers to gain informed consent from those willing to be human subjects is...
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New Developments in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Those who read (or who are familiar with) the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will probably be interested in this article by the book’s author, Rebecca Skloot. In particular, Skloot addresses new ethical issues...
Read MoreUC Davis Punishes Professors for Unethical Medical Experiments
Good for UC Davis. It has punished two medical professors for conducting unethical medical experiments on brain cancer patients. From the Associated Press story: Two University of California, Davis, neurosurgeons have been...
Read MoreIVF Clinics Supply Embryos For Destructive Research Without Consent of Egg Donors
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When a woman donates her eggs for one purpose — to help another woman have a child — is it right and ethical to instead use embryos made from her gametes for...
Read MoreMisconception : the word formally known as deception
Mildred Cho and David Magnus at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University have a pretty good piece here on the therapeutic misconception of stem cell research.Of particular interest is their caution to...
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