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Master of Science in Bioethics Bioethics

WEBHarvard Medical School’s Master of Science in Bioethics degree program— one-year, full-time in person or two-year, part-time online —provides students with rigorous academic …

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Informed Consent and the Revised Common Rule Bioethics

WEBIn January 2017, the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a major update to …

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Course Descriptions Bioethics

WEBHarvard Medical School Master of Science in Bioethics program offers a variety of courses on current and emerging topics in bioethics. Between the master's program offerings …

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Choosing Death over Suffering Bioethics

WEBChoosing Death over Suffering. For the first time, many physicians, regardless of specialty, are being forced to consider what the standard of care will be for informing …

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The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More …

WEBThe American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor. 272 pp. New York, NY, PublicAffairs, 2013. ISBN 978 …

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Bioethics and The Future: Can Progress Be Tamed

WEBBioethics is the natural child of scientific and medical progress, born and raised in the 1960s, and still growing. My musings, and indeed, argument for the future …

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Precision Medicine: What is the price of progress

WEBIn 2015, President Barack Obama announced the $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative, calling it “one of the biggest opportunities for breakthroughs in …

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Moral Expertise in Clinical Ethics Bioethics

WEBFurther, by “clinical ethics expertise” we mean “the competence to help others make better moral decisions” in health care contexts (Watson and Guidry-Grimes 2018: …

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'A Person-Centered Approach to Kidney Care' Bioethics

WEBUnini Odama, MD, MPH, MBE, a recent graduate of the MBE virtual program, published new insights on 'person-centered' kidney care delivery with co …

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Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia Bioethics

WEBThe Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia is a monthly series that convenes two international experts from different fields or vantage points to discuss how biomedical innovation and …

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Do Spirituality and Medicine Go Together

WEBWithin the experience of serious illness, empirical research reveals an indelible connection between medicine and spirituality—broadly defined as the way individuals seek and …

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Ethics of Emergency Preparedness Bioethics

WEBHistorically bioethics was not an overt part of the emergency preparedness process. Emergency planning generally begins with an annual risk analysis and follows …

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Harvard Ethics Consultation Skills Course Bioethics

WEBThe Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is excited to be offering the third annual Harvard Ethics Consultation Skills Course, a one-of-a-kind immersive …

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Prioritizing Patients: How algorithms can promote just resource

WEBThe utility of algorithms in rationing is not contingent on the value of a single system of resource allocation, nor the efficacy of some set of rules or criteria; rather, …

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How Do Individuals Who Were Conceived Through the Use of …

WEBIntroduction. With the advent of 23andMe and Ancestry.com, DNA testing is readily available for anyone who can afford it. In 2017 alone, more than 12 million …

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Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law Analysis

WEBFor years, medicine, society, and the law have treated disorders of consciousness (DoCs), particularly the “permanent vegetative state,” as undignified …

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Organizational Ethics Consortia Bioethics

WEBHospitals, ACOs, health plans, professional societies, and other health-related organizations are increasingly dealing with the ethical dimensions of policies, …

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Aaron Seth Kesselheim Bioethics

WEBMember, HMS Center for Bioethics. 617-278-0930. Email. Personal Website. Bio. Publications. Contact. Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine at …

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