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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Consciousness And Futility: A Proposal For A Legal Redefinition Of Death, Christopher Smith
Consciousness And Futility: A Proposal For A Legal Redefinition Of Death, Christopher Smith
Christopher R Smith
Recent controversies in Texas (with the Marlise Muñoz case) and in California (with the Jahi McMath case) have highlighted a lamentable flaw in the current legal conception of human death, and the difficulty of defining when death finally occurs. The unworkable notion of “brain-death” remains the law in every state in the union, yet the philosophical and scientific foundations of this notion remain open to attack. This article posits that death is a fundamentally social construct, and that it is society at large (through its laws, public opinions, religious attitudes, etc.) that actually defines death. This essay then argues that …
Democratic Deliberation And The Ethical Review Of Human Subjects Research, Govind Persad
Democratic Deliberation And The Ethical Review Of Human Subjects Research, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In the United States, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has proposed deliberative democracy as an approach for dealing with ethical issues surrounding synthetic biology. Deliberative democracy might similarly help us as we update the regulation of human subjects research. This paper considers how the values that deliberative democratic engagement aims to realize can be realized in a human subjects research context. Deliberative democracy is characterized by an ongoing exchange of ideas between participants, and an effort to justify decisions that bind participants by appeal to reasons that the participants can understand and share. Even when unanimous …
Ebola And Bioterrorism, Joshua P. Monroe
Ebola And Bioterrorism, Joshua P. Monroe
Joshua P Monroe
This paper will be a comparison of the United States government’s reaction to the recent outbreak of Ebola and will compare this response with the potential response by the United States government toward an act of biological or chemical warfare. The paper will analyze these responses from a cultural, political, legal, and policy standpoint
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency In Human Eggs For Third-Party Reproduction In Canada, Jocelyn Downie
Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency In Human Eggs For Third-Party Reproduction In Canada, Jocelyn Downie
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
To avoid the commercialization of reproduction, the Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act 2004) prohibits the purchase of human eggs. We endorse this legal prohibition and moreover believe that this facet of the law should not be allowed to have as an unintended consequence an increase in transnational trade in human eggs. In an effort to avoid this consequence, and to be consistent with the AHR Act, we advocate a system of national altruistic self-sufficiency. This article briefly outlines a number of strategies to increase the domestic altruistic supply of third-party eggs and decrease the domestic demand for third-party …