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Article from Dr. Stahl in ‘AJOB Neuroscience’

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

Center Assistant Professor Dr. Devan Stahl and co-author John Banja (Emory University) have a target article in the current issue of AJOB Neuroscience, titled “The Persisting Problem of Precedent Autonomy Among Persons in a Minimally Conscious State: The Limitations of Philosophical … Continue reading →

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Dr. Stahl explores how we see illness in new book ‘Imaging and Imagining Illness’

Posted on February 2, 2018 by

Center Assistant Professor Dr. Devan Stahl has a new book available from Cascade Books, Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body. Edited by Dr. Stahl with a foreword from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, the collection of essays draws from the disciplines … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Spring 2018 Bioethics Brownbag & Webinar Series

Posted on January 15, 2018 by

This year’s Bioethics Brownbag & Webinar Series resumes in February. You are invited to join us in person or watch live online from anywhere in the world. Information about the spring series is listed below. Please visit our website for more details, … Continue reading →

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Gene Editing: God’s Will or God’s Won’t

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Leonard M. Fleck, PhD Give God a rest; do your own gene editing (and thinking). On August 2, 2017 the New York Times headline read, “In Breakthrough, Scientists … Continue reading →

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Humanity in the Age of Genetic Modification

Posted on October 26, 2017 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Jennifer Carter-Johnson, PhD, JD Scientists have recently announced that they had used the new gene editing technique, CRISPR, to remove remnants of ancient viruses that had integrated into … Continue reading →

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Dr. Fleck published in new ‘Ethics, Medicine and Public Health’ issue

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

Center Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck has a new article in Ethics, Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Fleck’s article, “Just caring: Do we need philosophical foundations?,” appears in the April-June 2017 issue. Abstract The “Just Caring” problem asks: What does it … Continue reading →

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Why not more research into preventing cancer?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Tom Tomlinson, PhD Why are so much money and effort put into research aimed at curing cancer, and so little devoted to preventing … Continue reading →

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