Charlene Galarneau, faculty member in the Center for Bioethics and a senior lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine opines: Despite abundant evidence of racism’s health impacts, a key bioethics reference text barely acknowledges the problem.
If a physician is forced to grapple with whether a patient meets the legal criteria for receiving an abortion, they may also miss opportunities to prevent their condition from getting worse, says Dr. Louise Perkins King, an ob-gyn and director of reproductive bioethics at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.
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.
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”.
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.
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).
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.”
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.”
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.
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, 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.
