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Are We Ready to Treat a World on Fire? Climate Literacy in Medical Education: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (884+ words) Are We Ready to Treat a World on Fire? Climate Literacy in Medical Education The Hastings Center for Bioethics Are We Ready to Treat a World on Fire? Climate Literacy in Medical Education What does it mean to become a…...
The Limits of Unauthorized Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI - The Hastings Center for Bioethics
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (294+ words) In May Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The lawsuit was brought under Pennsylvania’s Medical Practice Act. The alleged “practitioner,…...
Artificial Empathy: What AI Is Teaching Future Physicians About Caring: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (426+ words) “I’m holding space for you.” “What’s weighing on you today?” “That sounds really difficult to navigate.” Concerns about AI’s influence on human communication are already emerging in broader discourse. A recent Duke Chronicle column argued that optimized forms of language…...
Preventing the Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach
2+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) thehastingscenter.org Preventing the Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach Abstract: Long-standing frameworks for the ethics of biomedical research are being challenged on multiple fronts by seismic shifts in the way science is practiced....
Who Should Bear Witness at the Bedside?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (204+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Who Should Bear Witness at the Bedside? Doctors and nurses often pass judgment on family members who don’t visit an unconscious or minimally conscious patient who may be suffering. But is bedside presence a moral…...
On the Razor’s Edge of Care: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
3+ week, 1+ day ago (218+ words) However, the ED team raised concern that the surgery would unintentionally reinforce Tarin’s pattern of swallowing sharp objects and seeking medical treatment. As an alternative, the ED team proposed a conservative strategy of close observation and repeated imaging to track…...
What If AI Could Be a Bioethics Scholar? - The Hastings Center for Bioethics
3+ week, 6+ day ago (528+ words) Twenty years ago, I wrote the first essay published in Hastings Bioethics Forum. At that time, online publications were new and many people were suspicious of them. My essay reflected on the reliability of the internet for scholars: Would the…...
They Volunteered to Get Hepatitis: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (500+ words) “I’m not willing to kill for my country—but I am willing to die for it.” So spoke a so-called “Conchie,” a conscientious objector who volunteered to participate in medical experiments during World War II as a way to avoid…...
Hastings Conversations: Working with Erik Parens
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (105+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Hastings Conversations: Working with Erik Parens Abstract: However helpful have been the papers, reports, and books Erik Parens has produced while at The Hastings Center, conversation with him has always been even better. In both…...
Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (182+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life Abstract: This commentary responds to Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues’ article, “Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering.” The…...