Successfully resurrecting now-extinct museum-dwellers would be a scientific feat on par with the moon landing.
We easily fall into this type of thinking – attributing misfortune to the person, their body, or their behavior – and fail to consider wider structures.
The most recent abortion ban in Texas is a prime example of the lack of understanding in science displayed by the policymakers and lobbyists advocating for tighter restrictions on abortion.
While the constitutionality debate over Texas’s anti-abortion law continues, the ethical impact it has on race and ethnicity is an aspect that requires further consideration.
The medical field should be committed to ending all forms of discrimination and should actively oppose any policy that restricts minority groups without legitimate grounds, especially when those restrictions negatively impact public health.
Together, these cases illustrate some of the good and some of the alarming developments that come from so much genetic information being available online, and so much of it traceable to individuals.
With the success of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, it is likely that many pharmaceutical companies will utilize recent mRNA advancements to target other diseases.
The AMA’s code of ethics has evolved greatly since then; as technology and medical knowledge has advanced, physicians find themselves in increasingly morally gray situations.
As of October 2021, neither a price nor a date has been set for the release of CRISPR as a gene therapy option available to the general public; nevertheless, interest in the development of this technology has led to much debate over ethical questions related to the use of the technology.
The truth is an individual’s decisions are small, but she is still the only one making them, and she is small. We are discussing the morality of small choices with small impacts. The carnal pleasure derived from consuming meat is also small and, therefore, cannot justify the small environmental damage that it causes.
A new lab-born mosquito : a genetic threat, or disease-halting hero?
I couldn't help feeling like "a human guinea pig" for the vaccine
Is it ever morally justifiable to “skip” a vaccine line?
It is every individual’s responsibility to get vaccinated as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
Without intervention, dangerous experiments that push the bounds of ethical science will continue unchecked.
The Biden administration’s American Families Plan represents a new chance for disabled advocates to demand more inclusive and assured programs for the benefit of all disabled individuals, regardless of group status.
The risk of opioid addiction can be negated when only used in controlled, chronic environments.
“The decision to donate an organ should not be viewed as ethically consequential.”
"How to drive a hard bargain like your life depends on it.”
“People have the option to choose how and when they will die.”