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Bioethics for Breakfast: Health Reform Unmentionables: Long-Term Care
Anne Montgomery and Sarah Slocum, co-directors of Altarum’s Program to Improve Eldercare, presented at the December 10 Bioethics for Breakfast session, offering perspectives and insight on the topic “Health Reform Unmentionables: Long-Term Care.” While past Bioethics for Breakfast events were held in … Continue reading
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Tagged Altarum, Anne Montgomery, bioethics, bioethics for breakfast, health care reform, health insurance, health policy, long term care, Medicaid, medicare, Sarah Slocum, united states
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Listen: Why I Left the U.S. for My Surgical Procedure
This podcast episode features Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences faculty members Dr. Len Fleck, Acting Director, and Dr. Larissa Fluegel, Assistant Professor. Continue reading
Posted in Center News, Outreach, Podcasts, Uncategorized
Tagged bioethics, Dominican Republic, health care cost, health care policy, health insurance, health policy, insurance, Larissa Fluegel, Leonard Fleck, medical ethics, medical tourism, No Easy Answers in Bioethics, podcast, surgery
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Health Care and Social Justice: Just Take Two Aspirin for Your Tumor If You Cannot Afford Your Cancer Care
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is the former Associate Dean of Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns,” he complained that curricula in medical schools “are increasingly focused on social justice rather than treating illness.” He goes on to say, “A new wave of educational specialists is increasingly influencing medical education. They emphasize ‘social justice’ that is related to health care only tangentially.” Really? Only tangentially? Continue reading
Medicare For All: This Is Going to Hurt
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Leonard M. Fleck, PhD Let me start with a clear unequivocal commitment in response to the January Washington Post editorial regarding Medicare for All. From the perspective of what a … Continue reading
Fall 2018 publications from Center faculty
Continue reading below for a list of recent journal articles from Center faculty, including online first publications. MSU Library or other institutional access may be required to view these articles. Recently assigned an issue Stahl D. Patient reflections on the … Continue reading
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Tagged biobank, bioethics, breastfeeding, deep brain stimulation, Devan Stahl, health insurance, health policy, Laura Cabrera, Leonard Fleck, libby bogdan-lovis, neuroethics, neuroscience, neurosurgery, philosophy, psychiatric treatments, Robyn Bluhm, theoretical medicine, Tom Tomlinson
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Web of Interests Surrounding Medicines Makes Patient Access Increasingly Difficult
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Jennifer Carter-Johnson, PhD, JD A recent New York Times article described the problems that patients are having gaining access to a new class of cholesterol reducers, called PCSK9 … Continue reading
No More Death Panels; Politically-Assisted Suicide Instead
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Leonard Fleck, PhD Republicans have not coalesced around any comprehensive proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act (though one is now on the table and intensely disputed). … Continue reading
Leonard Fleck: Using a medical ethicscope
Read Dr. Fleck’s recent Faculty Voice feature in MSU Today: “Leonard Fleck: Using a medical ethicscope.” Dr. Fleck discusses the importance of educating students about health care policy, and uses an example of a woman in Texas who could not afford a medical … Continue reading
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Tagged education, health care policy, health insurance, Leonard Fleck, medical ethics, MSU Today, Texas
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Should Women Pay More for Health Insurance?
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Leonard M. Fleck, Ph.D. In a recent commentary in Time (Aug. 23, 2013), Hadley Heath argued that women ought to pay more … Continue reading
Price Transparency
This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Michael R.Wassenaar, Ph.D. Price transparency in healthcare is getting a lot of attention at the moment. In February 2013, Time magazine published … Continue reading
