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Even nursing homes are finding they must adjust to late-blooming love and its attendant complexities. In a forthcoming book, Stella Henry, a Los Angeles geriatric nurse and bioethicist, describes the very different family reactions to a romance between two pseudonymous residents--Jack, 92, and Jill, 86--in a Los Angeles-area long-term-care facility. While the man's family gave its blessings, the woman's relatives were appalled. Henry, reflecting the enlightened view of a new generation of caregivers, is sympathetic to late-December pairings as long as both partners still have their wits and the relationship doesn...
Students should heed animals’ “preferences” and not treat them as objects, according to a controversial Princeton bioethicist who spoke at Adams House yesterday...
Strengthening a Philosophy department whose ranks have been depleted by departures and the death of one of its leading lights, Harvard has recruited prominent New York University (NYU) bioethicist and moral philosopher Frances M. Kamm...
...only get worse as the number of trials increases. According to CenterWatch, a patient information group that monitors clinical research, 80,000 clinical trials were conducted in the U.S. last year alone. Adil Shamoo, a bioethicist from the University of Maryland School of Medicine who sits on the National Human Research Protection Advisory Committee, estimates that some 20 million people were enrolled as research subjects last year--three times the number a decade...
...matter what regulations, what standardized forms, what oversight committees the government and institutions end up putting in place, in the end, it's still up to the researcher to treat his subjects with dignity and care. In fact, argues University of Virginia bioethicist Jonathan Moreno, there's a downside to stronger protectionism: "When you take away the discretion of scientists, it's possible they'll shrug their shoulders and say, 'Protecting subjects isn't my job. Someone else will have to take care of it.' And if we don't have a morally responsible community of investigators, then nothing...