There’s a short piece in the latest JME about the use of social networking sites by medics that’s got me thinking. In it, Guseh, Brendel and Brendel suggest that physicians need to be especially careful about accepting, say, a Facebook friend request from patients because of the nature of social networking sites and the possibility […]
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And Justice (and Healthcare) for All
A convicted double murderer has won the right to have cosmetic surgery to remove a birthmark on the NHS. Good. Predictably, the foaming-at-the-mouth brigade is having a field day with this in the comments section of the Daily Fail‘s coverage. Equally predictably, they’re wrong. The reason is straightforwardly to do with considerations of rights and […]
Conference: Research Ethics Committees – Help or Hindrance? UCL 12 Nov 2009
Interesting Research Ethics Conference at UCL in November, and I’m not just saying that because I am one of the speakers… […]
AIDS=Nazism?
This is a very strange story that’s been picked up by the Daily Telegraph: a German Aids charity has been attacked for launching an advertising campaign – and a pretty sexually explicit one at that – in which people who spread HIV are presented as Hitler. I’m not sure whether the target is people who […]
Oooops!
You may have heard last week about the Microsoft advert running in Poland that had been… um… how can I put it?… ethnically re-envisioned (and badly, too: even I could Photoshop an image more convincingly, and I’m like a blind monkey with scissors). And Ford got into trouble a few years ago for doing something similar. […]
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…
By David Hunter One thing I’ve been pondering lately is what we might use to refer to a gathering of bioethicists? […]
Knowing You, Knowing Us
It’s all very well to vanish off to a conference and put faces to names… but that can’t help with the important questions, like What does the internet think of you?. Fortunately, this little app can tell you. Type in your name, and it’ll do the Google version of a genetic fingerprint. In the interests […]
Salon Culture… in Manchester
I can’t remember how I found it, but I feel I ought to pimp the Manchester Salon, a debating forum in this here rainy part of the country. There seems to be a few events in coming months that are related to the concerns of this blog and journal, starting with one on assisted suicide […]
This just in from Tübingen…
“I’m surprised,” said the German philosopher whose name I’ve forgotten but next to whom I was walking towards the ice-cream parlour, “how little argument there is here.” I have to admit it – had he chosen his parallel sessions unluckily, he could easily have been left with the notion that the ESPMH is an argument-free zone: […]
Are you a Lazy academic? Try Dropbox
By David Hunter Over on the Philosophy and Bioethics Blog I run a series called Academic Ease, posts aimed at making the life of academics easier/lazier. I thought today I might share one of those hints over here. One of the curses of a modern academic is trying to ensure that the files on your […]