Posted in bioethics, health, law, neuroscience, open access publishing on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
All 134 chapters of Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress have been made available for download. Two of them concern legal and ethical issues:
Debra A. Pinals & Paul S. Appelbaum. Ethical Aspects Of Neuropsychiatric Research With Human Subjects. Chapter 35 [PDF file]
Paul Lebe. Regulatory Issues. Chapter 36: PDF file
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology [...]
Posted in bioethics, ethics, health, law on May 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Following a paper published in Fertility and Sterility, the New York Times weighs in with this: As Demand for Donor Eggs Soars, High Prices Stir Ethical Concern.
The surprise for me was how Hastings Center ethicist Josephine Johnston characterized the problem: she thinks the lure of a big payment can cloud informed consent.
The real issue is [...]
Posted in bioethics, health, journalism, law, philosophy, politics on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today, two articles from the Washington Post tell us how economists and doctors are using behavioural psychology to make the world a better place.
The first involves the use of intuitions in making public policy - while my own research interest concerns the involvement of moral intuition in political and legal decision-making, scholars of behavioural law [...]
Posted in bioethics, health, law on May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
The National Human Genome Research Institute has an excellent compilation of legislative information related to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA 2007). It includes webcasts of testimony, a useful chronology, and links to the Library of Congress archive of legislative information - THOMAS - which uses an interface that Canada’s Library of [...]
Posted in health on April 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve just finished Ghost Map, a book by Steven Johnson. It tells the fascinating story of John Snow, a doctor who mapped the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, and used his results to identify the Broad Street pump as the source of the disease. Those maps can be found here, and a short video interview [...]
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