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Humanitarian intervention: what are the ethical challenges facing aid...
Ramin Asgary, M.D., M.P.H. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Recent natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, and the tsunami in Southeast Asia and the Arab Spring resulted in an...
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Compassion Across Borders: International Disparities in the Vocation of...
The following essay was the first-prize winner of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education’s 2014 Dr. Kuo York and M. Noelle Chynn Undergraduate Prize in Ethics, an essay competition to...
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What Mad Men’s Betty Draper-Francis Can Teach Us About Paternalism in Medicine
January Jones as Betty Draper-Francis on AMC’s Mad Men. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Warning: spoilers ahead. The penultimate episode of AMC’s Mad Men provided an all-too-familiar portrayal of the...
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The National Transgender Study is a Start – But More is Needed to Protect the...
Image via Ted Eytan On Thursday, December 9th, the largest survey of transgender people ever conducted was published by The National Center for Transgender Equality. The anonymous online survey had...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: February 17, 2017
Image via Politics Trump Ethics Monitor: Has The President Kept His Promises? To track Trump’s ethics-related promises, NPR checked debate transcripts, campaign speeches and press conferences Trump’s...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: March 10, 2017
Image via Politics White House Slammed by Federal Ethics Chief for Not Disciplining Kellyanne Conway U.S. government’s official ethics watchdog blasted White House for not taking disciplinary action...
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It’s Not Science Fiction: Ethics of Artificial Wombs
Image via With the advent of 3-D printers and similar technology, modern science has come closer and closer to artificially solving medical issues and imitating parts of both the anatomy and physiology...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: June 2, 2017
Image via Politics and World News White House Waivers May Have Violated Ethics Rules White House waiver allows all White House aids to communicate with news organizations, even if they involve a...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: August 18, 2017
Image via Politics Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions “Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: September 22, 2017
Image via Politics Donald Trump’s Lies and Obstruction Will End His Presidency, Ex-Ethics Chief Says “A former White House ethics chief says that Donald Trump would likely be impeached if it is proven...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: October 6, 2017
Image via Bioethics/Medical Ethics Pope denounces technologies that help people change gender “Pope Francis denounce Thursday how new technologies are making it easier for people to change their...
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Hospice and Palliative Care
Image via STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN PRIZE THIRD-PLACE WINNER By Maia Lauria I first stumbled upon the issue of palliative care during a particularly hard time in my life. I was twenty years old, and for...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: December 8, 2017
Image via Technology Ethics Artificial Intelligence Seeks An Ethical Conscience “Leading artificial intelligence researchers gathered this week for the prestigious Neural Information Processing Systems...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: January 26, 2018
Image via Justin Baeder Politics Trump Move on Healthcare Religious Freedom Prompts Discrimination Fears “The Trump administration’s move on Thursday to protect healthcare workers who refuse to perform...
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Ethics and Society Newsfeed – February 9, 2018
Image via We Are Neo Politics The Circumscribed Ethics Investigation into Devin Nunes “The House Intelligence Committee chair claimed he’d been completely cleared, but the panel probing his conduct...
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Ethics and Society Newsfeed – May 4, 2018
Image via Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bioethics group to study technology behind ‘three-parent babies’ “Mitochondrial genome replacement technology involves combining the genetic material (DNA) of a...
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A Doctor’s Beauty
Image via STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE SECOND-PLACE WINNER By Carli Grace My mother is a “beautician”, the suffix -ician denoting a person skilled in the prefix, beauty, or more simply a...
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The Clinical Dialectic: What Makes Life Worth Living?
STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE THIRD-PLACE WINNER By Brett Taylor Image via Can too much of a good thing become bad? During the spring semester of my junior year, I had overexerted myself while...
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Ethics and Society Newsfeed – August 24, 2018
Photo by Dan Mason Bioethics/Medical Ethics Jahi McMath, Teen At Center Of Medical And Religious Debate On Brain Death, Has Died Jahi McMath, a brain-dead patient who had been on life support since...
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Fear of Practitioner Bias and Confidentiality Breaches are Barriers to HIV...
Images via Pixabay Celia B. Fisher, PhD, Director of Fordham University’s Center of Ethics and Education, explores transgender youth healthcare and HIV prevention in a recently published article...
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