Doing Good Well in Unethical Times: Lessons from 15 Years of Fordham...
Image via In a recent commentary published in Aids & Behavior, Dr. Celia B. Fisher and colleagues call for a new era of HIV science, drawing on insights from the Fordham University HIV and Drug...
View ArticleEthics in the News: GLP-1s, AI Discrimination, Vaccine Policy Shifts, and More
Image via Doctors Face Ethical Dilemma Prescribing GLP-1s to Eating Disorder Patients By Bethany Brookshire, National Geographic “With one in eight adults taking drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro,...
View ArticleBetween Loss and Law: The Ethical Battle for Miscarriage Care Admist...
Image via STUDENT VOICES | THE 2025 CHYNN ETHICS PAPER – honorable mention essay Between Loss and Law: The Ethical Battle for Miscarriage Care Admist Tightening Abortion Restrictions By Lauren K....
View ArticleAy Confianza en la Medicina?: How Cultural Pillars in Hispanic Communities...
Image via STUDENT VOICESBy Catalina Mercado “Is there trust in medicine?” Hispanic cultural constructs like confianza (trust) and respeto (respect) are central to the lives of many Hispanic...
View Article⌈Ethics in the News⌋ Womb Transplants, Brain Implants, and Space Junk
Womb transplants may be the dawn of a new age, but they fill me with foreboding (The Guardian) BY SONIA SODHA ‘Ethical questions – not least, about risks to the donors – have been ignored in the...
View ArticleEthics in the News – Tech, Science, Healthcare and more
Photo via Technology and Privacy How conflict minerals make it into our phones “Tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold. All of these minerals are found in our electronics and all are considered conflict...
View ArticleDisability and Healthcare: Systematic Policy Failure and the Continuing...
Image via On Tuesday, October 19th, 2021, the Center for Ethics Education hosted a Zoom conversation on the topic of “Disability and Access to Healthcare.” This was the second installment of the...
View ArticleEthics in the News – Artificial Intelligence, Ethics Violations, Forged...
Image via November 5, 2022 Technology How well can an AI mimic human ethics?“The skeptical stance here is, of course, that there’s nothing “under the hood”: There’s no deep sense in which the AI...
View ArticleEthics and Society Newsfeed – April 9, 2021
Photo via COVID-19 Jabs vs. Jab-Nots: Vaccine Passports Will Exclude Less Fortunate“On March 15, Britain’s Parliament turned to the question of the moment: how to reopen pubs, cinemas, and soccer...
View ArticleEthics and Global Health Research
Photo Via As part of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education’s Advancing Health and Social Justice Web Series, Dr. Purnima Madhivanan from the University of Arizona and Dr. Rebecca...
View ArticleFordham RETI Alum Dr. Faith Fletcher Discusses Harmful Characterization of...
Photo via In November 2020, Pew Research Center published findings from a survey conducted on American’s confidence and intent to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In comparison to other racial and ethnic...
View ArticleStructural Violence in Global Clinical Research
Image via Pexels STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE HONORABLE MENTIONBy Julia Sese For the first half of my education at Fordham, I was determined to become a doctor and practice medicine abroad in...
View ArticleEthics and Society Newsfeed – November 13, 2020
Images via Pixabay, Pexels, and Canva COVID-19 Vaccine ethics: Covid could come back stronger if rich nations monopolise doses“The news that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may prove up to 90 per cent...
View ArticleEthics and Society Newsfeed – October 16, 2020
Photo via U.S. Election Why There is no Ethical Reason Not to Vote (Unless You Come Down with COVID-19 on Election Day)“The three most common reasons I hear are: “I don’t have enough information,” “I...
View ArticleNewsfeed: Ethics and Society Newsfeed – September 4, 2020
Image via Pexels Education and COVID-19 An Ethical Opening for Higher Ed Institutions “The job of IRBs is to approve research involving human subjects. The ethicists, scientists and community members...
View ArticleFordham University’s Dr. Michael Baur Discusses Moral Fatigue During...
Imaga via Pixabay Michael Baur, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law, Director of the Natural Law Colloquium, and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics...
View ArticleNewsfeed: Ethics in the Time of Corona(virus)
Image via Pixabay Healthcare and Public Health Johns Hopkins University & Medicine: The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing“Right now, we must recognize that we cannot expect the most marginalized...
View ArticleEthics and Society Newsfeed – September 6, 2019
Business Ethics Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Landmark Opioid Case In the first of many legal battles to determine responsibility for the opioid crises in the United States,...
View ArticleEmbryonic Stem Cell Research According to Islamic Texts and Beliefs
Image via Canva STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION By Yara Contijoch Numerous religions push back against medical science when it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Human...
View ArticleThe Uncomfortable Ethics of a Surgeon’s Shadow
Image via Pixabay STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE SECOND-PLACE WINNER By Michael Bub Family gatherings for the holidays are one of those things that most everyone has to deal with. Those who get...
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