Bioethics – Global, National, Local
Health Care Policy, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics and Genomics
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As is typical of decision-making in clinical diagnosis, choices in clinical genetics are never straightforward and always lead to subsidiary questions. Similarly in genetics itself, as in physiology or biochemistry, an answer to a question leads to other questions about that answer, and investigators and clinicians are led deeper into the maze.
One undertakes the journey [...]
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Ethical relativism provides a flimsy moral gloss condoning questionable activities of global pharmaceuticals in developing nations. But the Emperor has no clothes. Ultimately, there’s no such thing as a little bit of ethics.
Medical ethics became an area of concern in the wake of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Code was developed in response to the [...]
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