Public Health Education: Is Presenting The Facts Enough?
<p>Efforts to educate the public are based on the assumption that human beings can be persuaded by good reasons and evidence in formulating their responses to important questions about public...
View ArticleDoes More Information Help Us Settle Factual Disputes?
<p>In my <a href="/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/public-health-education-is-presenting-the-facts-enough">last blog</a> I alluded to the effect of an assumed point of view, particularly a set...
View ArticleQuarantine: The politics are as real as the science
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Implementation of medical quarantines in America brings into conflict various...
View ArticleImmunization Idiocy
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I knew that I was going to write...
View ArticleUse of Unproven Interventions is Never Obligatory
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I recently read a paper written by...
View ArticleA Shot of Hope: Efforts to Address the Opioid Addiction Crisis
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US with close to 50,000 deadly overdoses in 2015 alone. Opioid addiction...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: September 30, 2016
Technology and Ethics Tech Giants Team Up To Tackle The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence The Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, consisting of Amazon, Facebook,...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: November 11, 2016
President-Elect Trump and Ethics Trump and Pence on science, in their own words Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s career and campaign track record of false claims about science, rejection of research...
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Fordham RETI Fellow Discusses Addiction with U.S. Surgeon General on NPR
Earlier this month, the United States Surgeon General issued a report declaring substance use disorders, like addiction, the “most pressing public health crises of our time.” The report called the...
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TEDxFordhamUniversity: Lesson in Bioethics Given by Golden Girls | Dr....
As one of the most groundbreaking sitcoms of all time, The Golden Girls introduced a range of bioethical issues on the show regarding medicine, the human body and women’s health. In this TEDx Talk, Dr....
View ArticleExercise is good for you and High Heels are not: Health Reports on the Obvious
In a quest for health news which might spark some meaningful topic worth sharing with the Bioethics community, I was repeatedly dismayed at the number of articles offering relatively little useful...
View ArticleHow Much Should Your Boss and the U.S. Department of Labor Know About Your...
As the price of health care and uncertainty about health insurance coverage increases, employers are taking more of an interest in their employees’ health. Indeed, this is not a new trend as the United...
View ArticleHarvey and Irma: Bioethics in Natural Disasters
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This is a time of disaster. Last week Hurricane Harvey devastated Southeast Texas, a place where I did my doctoral studies. This week we are awaiting Hurricane Irma, the...
View ArticleWelcome to the 2018 HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training...
The Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been selected as 2018 Fellows: The Fordham...
View ArticleWelcome to the 2019 HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training...
The Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been selected as 2019 Fellows: The Fordham...
View ArticleNewsfeed: Ethics in the Time of Corona(virus)
Healthcare and Public Health Johns Hopkins University & Medicine: The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing“Right now, we must recognize that we cannot expect the most marginalized among us to bear the...
View ArticleFordham RETI Alum Dr. Faith Fletcher Featured in Rolling Stone Discussing...
For years, leaders in public health, including members of the American Public Health Association (APHA) have been calling for the recognition of racism as a public health issue. On their website, the...
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