Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia ...ethics in action

Thanks to a federal district judge stem cell research is rolling on back to the days of the Bush Administration. Prediction: get ready for a fight.

Isn't "healthy bacon" an oxymoron? No matter how much we engineer a pig or the food it eats, could it be ethical to advertise its parts as "healthy"?

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Kafka's writings are frequently interpreted as representing the historical period of modernism in which he was writing. Little attention has been paid, however, to the possibility that his writings may reflect neural mechanisms in the processing of self during hypnagogic (i.e., between waking and sleep) states. Kafka suffered from dream-like, hypnagogic hallucinations during a sleep-deprived state while writing. This paper discusses reasons (phenomenological and neurobiological) why the self projects an imaginary double (autoscopy) in its spontaneous hallucinations and how Kafka's writings help to elucidate the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms. I further discuss how the proposed mechanisms may be relevant to understanding paranoid delusions in schizophrenia. Literature documents ...

HT @ArthurCaplan: A New Jersey case reminds us we have much to improve upon with care at the end of life.

Shockingly avoiding wrongful life claims and abortion politics, Florida legislature passes law that allows parents to be awarded $25M for the wrongful birth of second son with same detectable genetic condition as first born.

RT @NPRHealth: School Birthday Party from January-June = More Immature = More Likely to Have ADHD Diagnosis = More Teachers Need to Stop Medicalizing Classroom Behavior Problems

Does the FDA have any basis for regulating stem cell clinics that put patients own cells back into them as therapy?

Is the price tag the right way to measure the true cost of research misconduct and its investigation?

Putting a different spin on "viewing the world through the eyes of a child..."

Animal Models in the Light of Evolution provides persuasive evidence that animal models should be used with great caution when applying the results to human diseases. Mice and other model animals are both similar and different, in their biology, to humans. (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)