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Nancy Neveloff Dubler (November 28, 1941 - April 14, 2024) was an American bioethicist and attorney, and a pioneer in the field of clinical bioethics mediation. [1] She worked at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx from 1975 to 2008, where she founded and served as Director of the Bioethics Consultation Service, among the first of its kind in the country.
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.
Utilitarian bioethics is based on the premise that the distribution of resources is a zero-sum game, and therefore medical decisions should logically be made on the basis of each person's total future productive value and happiness, their chance of survival from the present, and the resources required for treatment.
Bioethics Commission educational materials include: User Guides are quick reference guides for professionals or educators to relevant educational materials. Primers outline a practical application, such as addressing scientific hype in neuroscience, of selected Bioethics Commission recommendations.
Savulescu coined the phrase procreative beneficence.It is the controversial [4] [5] [vague] moral obligation, rather than mere permission, of parents in a position to select their children, for instance through preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and subsequent embryo selection or selective termination, to favor those expected to have the best possible life.
Housing inequality and insecurity. Housing inequality further exacerbates mental health issues. One 2019 review study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that ...
While it's difficult to say why women seem to be more successful than men at keeping weight off longer, internal vs. external motivation may be a factor. 83% of women say their motivation for ...
The Belmont Report is a 1978 report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.Its full title is the Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.