Anti-Resilience: What Happened to Normal?
Diagnosis is a tricky word. Doctors diagnose some scientific truths: for example, a finding of a tumor and the accompanying pathology report describing cellular activity…
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The Social Determinants of Health: Finding Causation in a Sea of Correlation
The social determinants of health by Marmot and Wilkinson are a list of social circumstances that impede or positively influence good health. Pointing out barriers…
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Let the Chips Fall: Bioethics Should Support Civil Justice
Bioethics concerns justice, fairness, and the social determinants of health. One example of an area in which bioethics can contribute to promoting justice is in…
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Blockchain and Health: Will Healthcare NFTs be the Next Bored Ape?
I don’t think so, but I do wonder whether the coins or tokens that yield healthcare access or access to items and services conducive to…
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A Supply Chain of Trust
One strategy for improving public trust in science, the COVID-19 vaccine and possibly future COVID-19 vaccines or vaccines for emerging virus should be improving trustworthiness…
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Prerequisites for Earning Public Trust: A Logical Approach for Food and Vaccination
A waiter at a restaurant tightly stuffs a large tea bag with loose tea and securely knots the bag, which is then placed in a…
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Bound by the Rules: The Pitfalls of Resource Allocation Ethics
When ethics becomes too rules-based the thinking and making sense of complex situations can be obscured by techniques that declare some ethical decisions final and…
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New York’s Mandate and the Absence of a Religious Exemption
On December 13, 2021, the US Supreme Court denied injunctive relief in Dr. A v. Hochul. This post is meant to summarize the dissent, follow…
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Brain Activity & Thoughts: Should Neuro-Rights Look Beyond the Individual?
Neuro-rights may protect people from certain harms due to neurotech advances. Neurotech has potential to improve medical treatments and revolutionize care, but there are foreseeable…
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Authenticity in Bioethics: Saying It in Your Own Words and Phrases
In the bioethics realm, there are a pre-set language, basket of concerns, and principles to sort through ethical dilemmas. But generally, people are more authentic…
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Free Exercise and Vaccine Mandates: The Least Restrictive Means
Vaccine mandates without religious exemptions (or as enforceable against those claiming free exercise) are in uncertain legal terrain. Nineteen states mandate vaccines for healthcare workers,…
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Fair Compensation for Data: Privacy, Blockchain, Ethics, and Data Science Converge
When we look at privacy, many goals converge. I separate constitutional privacy and protection from government surveillance from personal confidentiality. Having explored whether one can…
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Undermining Obesity Solutions: The Unspoken Tension Between Bioethics and Nutrition & Fitness
Obesity, one of the prominent and predictable risk factors for severe COVID-19, was not highlighted as much as it should have been from the early…
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From OR to EMR: Informed Consent’s Rocky Transition to Data
Hackable Part 4 A hyper-focus on informed consent as the primary tool to ensure autonomy represents some lapses in the field of bioethics. To me,…
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Resilience: The Role of Reactive Critical Thinking in Bouncing Back from Disasters and Disruptors
Resilience is a form of political capital and a necessary element for health and wellbeing. A resilient democracy might weather distress, just as a resilient…
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