Center for Bioethics Fellow Jay Baruch MD '02, recalls impatient patient who pulled her own breathing tube (and lived to tell about it) in his new book.
Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, associate director of the Center for Bioethics and president of the American Psychiatric Association, provided The New York Times “Well” readers with a helpful tip.
Christine Mitchell, executive director of the Center and president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, discusses hospital ethics committees and their current ethical quandaries regarding technological advances and end-of-life care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.”
