Ethical perspectives in health care by members of the Health Care Ethics Internship Program.
HCEI Interns and Ethics Center bioethics staff share perspectives around a variety of health care and bioethics related ethical dilemmas.
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Brain organoids are small tissue models derived from human stem cells and are currently being transplanted into animals. They hold great potential to investigate and treat neurological diseases, but their growing complexity could possibly give rise to consciousness in animals.
Analyzing biases against women in cardiovascular care, as well as how to move forward by integrating justice and building on essential bioethical principles.
Saving someone鈥檚 life could be as simple as pushing a button in the event of an opioid overdose, yet this is information not many know about and even fewer act on. Carrying naloxone is not just a public health initiative, but a moral responsibility all of us carry under the ethical framework of the common good.
Since 2015, there have been 20,000 children who have been sent to wilderness programs in Utah for mental health and behavioral issues. The Troubled Teen Industry and these types of programs are marketed as 鈥渞ehabilitation鈥 when they are often masking coercion, abuse, and neglect. When adolescent autonomy is neglected and parental consent creates a loophole of harm, is this really treatment or a systemic ethical failure?聽
Inadequate regulation of anthropogenic nanomaterials鈥攎an-made pollutants ranging from 1-100 nm鈥攎ay reinforce health inequities due to fenceline communities鈥 heightened exposure.
