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Two veterinarians gently hold down a small fluffy dog on its back while a technician uses an ultrasound wand on its stomach while looking at a monitor.

Veterinarians Often Provide Futile Care at a Cost

June 22, 2022

Faculty members Lisa Moses, VMD, and J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, along with MBE student Nathan W. Peterson, VMD, have been studying the ethical conflict and moral distress among veterinarians for several years and have new findings on the causes and suggestions for addressing them. This is the first study of this problem in North America.

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Data Sharing Initiative Could Help to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance

June 21, 2022

Dr. Rebecca Li, 2013 Fellow from the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Vivli Center for Global Clinical Research Data, spoke about how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming global threat, spurred on by years of widespread use and misuse of antibiotics, driving the evolution of hard-to-treat so-called “superbugs”.

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Can Mental Illness Explain Mass Shootings?

June 21, 2022

Associate director for the Center for Bioethics, Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, joined Dr. Doug Urness and Dr. Jon LaPook on CBS Mornings to discuss mental illness and gun violence rates in Canada and the United States.

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Get to Know APA's New President

May 25, 2022

While we celebrated our 2022 MBE class at their hooding ceremony, our very own associate director for the Center for Bioethics, Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, was instated as president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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A Closer Look at the Impact of One Million U.S. Covid Deaths

May 20, 2022

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, associate director for the Center for Bioethics and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) comments on, “The ripple effects of what we’ve been through, we are only beginning to see.”

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Has the BLM Movement Influenced Police Use of Lethal Force?

May 18, 2022

Glenn Ellis, Harvard Medical School 2019 bioethics fellow and visiting scholar at Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care is quoted, “If you’re not tracking the data, it’s impossible to understand the magnitude and know where to direct resources.”

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How a Bioethicist and Doctor Sees Abortion

May 5, 2022

Following the leak of a draft decision by the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the Medical School's Louise King discusses how the potential ruling might affect providers.

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Leaked Supreme Court Opinion, Structural Sexism, and Our Moral Imagination

May 4, 2022

2020 MBE alums Danielle Pacia and Beatrice L. Brown comment on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s  majority opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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2022 MBE Grad to Serve Army as Chaplain Bioethicist

May 4, 2022

When Vincent Bain receives his Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School in a few weeks, he will be headed to a new assignment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center—one of the few officers in the U.S. Army to serve as a chaplain bioethicist.

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel speaking remotely at a hearing on mental health

Testimony on the Hill Advocating for Evidence-based Policies for Mental Health

April 5, 2022

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, associate director for the Center for Bioethics and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), spoke at a hearing on “Communities in Need: Legislation to Support Mental Health and Well-Being” on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.

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Moving Xenotransplantation Research Into Human Trials

April 1, 2022

Dr. Insoo Hyun, director of research ethics and a faculty member at the Center for Bioethics, spoke on a panel about xenotransplantation at the STAT Breakthrough Science Summit in New York City.

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Commenting on the Scientific Debate Surrounding Hybrid Creatures in Fantasy Movies

March 18, 2022

Dr. Insoo Hyun, Director of Research Ethics and a faculty member at the Center for Bioethics was quoted for his take on the scientific debate surrounding hybrid creatures after the popularity of Netflix’s series, Sweet Tooth. Recently, this debate has surfaced again with Shrek 2 appearing in Netflix’s Top 10 movies in the U.S.

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