Tag Archives: Leonard Fleck

If Whole Genome Sequencing is So Cheap and Quick, Why Shouldn’t Everyone Have It Done?

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

The headline in New York Times Magazine reads: “Scientists can now sequence an entire genome overnight.” This is amazing. It took ten years and $3 billion to do the first mapping of the human genome, all three billion base pairs. Today the entire genome of any individual can be mapped for less than $1000. Why is that important? There are preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic, reproductive, and public health reasons. Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck presents on public funding for whole genome sequencing at International Bioethics Retreat

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Dr. Leonard Fleck, professor in the Center for Ethics, participated in a keynote debate this month as part of the 24th annual International Bioethics Retreat that was presented virtually from Paris. Within the debate format, Dr. Fleck addressed the question: “Whole Genome Sequencing: Should It Be Publicly Funded?” Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck contributes to perspective on heritable human genome editing published in ‘The CRISPR Journal’

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Center for Ethics professor Dr. Leonard M. Fleck is among a group of seventeen international co-authors of “Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Public Engagement Imperative,” published in the December 2020 issue of The CRISPR Journal. Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck published in ‘Hastings Center Report’ on Black Lives Matter and inequities in the U.S. healthcare system

Posted on November 6, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

In the current issue of the Hastings Center Report, Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck shared a perspective on “Some Lives Matter: The Dirty Little Secret of the U.S. Health Care System.” Abstract: Our health care system in … Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck presents on precision medicine at international virtual symposium

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck spoke earlier this month at a virtual symposium presented by University of Groningen in Groningen, Netherlands. The event’s theme was “Barriers and future directions of personalized medicine: from the bench to the … Continue reading →

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Commentary from Dr. Fleck published in ‘Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics’

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck has a commentary in the July 2020 issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. The commentary is titled “Medical Ethics: A Distinctive Species of Ethics.” Dr. Fleck writes, “Like the sciences, medical … Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck published in April ‘Journal of Medical Ethics’

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck is the author of an article published in the April 2020 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. “Just caring: screening needs limits” is in response to “Arrogance of ‘but all you … Continue reading →

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Listen: Why I Left the U.S. for My Surgical Procedure

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

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 →

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Religious Coercion of Physicians: Whose Conscience Is It Anyway?

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Neil Mahoney is 64 years old and has a terminal cancer with a predicted life expectancy of 4-16 months. He lives in Colorado, a state that approved an aid-in-dying law in 2016. His physician is Dr. Barbara Morris, 65, a geriatrician whom he has asked to provide him with the drugs needed to end his life. She has agreed to do just that. However, Dr. Morris works for the Centura Health Corporation, a Catholic-Adventist hospital system. Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck presents at 21st Annual ASBH Conference

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck recently attended and presented at the 21st American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, held in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Fleck participated in a session titled “Ageism in History, Moral Thought, and Healthcare … Continue reading →

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