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The White House outbreak: How to criticize irresponsible leaders without getting stuck in the illness blame game

Posted on October 22, 2020 by

n a twist of fate, there was an outbreak of COVID-19 at a White House celebration of the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States. This elicited a wide range of reactions to seeing a gathering of opponents of strict COVID-19 control measures being hurt by the very pandemic they have downplayed. While others have worried about the moral philosophy of taking pleasure in others’ suffering, or the hypocrisy of evading rules one publicly espouses, I have a different worry. Continue reading →

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We Need Healthier Schools, and Student Activists Are Stepping Up

Posted on November 14, 2019 by

California just passed two laws that advance health in schools in ways that might not seem intuitive: pushing middle school and high school start times to after 8am, and banning school districts from “lunch shaming” that treats students differently based on whether they have unpaid school lunch debt. These laws are part of a collection of diverse efforts to make U.S. schools healthier places. Continue reading →

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Recognizing Menstrual Supplies as Basic Health Necessities: The Bioethics of #FreePeriods

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Sean Valles, PhD Activism against “period poverty” has gone mainstream Within the last month, Scotland became the first country to provide free menstrual products in schools, and London … Continue reading →

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Politics and the Other Lead Poisoning: The Public Health Ethics of Gun Violence

Posted on November 17, 2016 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Sean A. Valles, PhD This year’s presidential debates drew attention to gun violence in Chicago, as well as the (merely?) short-term reversal in the decades-long decline in … Continue reading →

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Climate Change and Medical Risk

Posted on October 25, 2013 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Sean A. Valles, Ph.D.  After winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has returned to the headlines. … Continue reading →

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