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Womb transplantation: if it can be done, should it?
By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives, in what was the first large-scale experiment to determine whether this procedure...
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Introducing Student Voices: Fordham University students’ perspectives on...
By: Student Voices Editorial Board The Fordham University Center for Ethics Education is delighted to announce the launch of Student Voices, a new section of the Ethics & Society blog. Student...
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Do Current Drug Patent Laws Meet the ‘Preference for the Poor’ Standard?
By: Ken Ochs All of us have seen the colorful television commercials promoting a brand-name prescription medication. As a butterfly alleviating a woman’s insomnia flies into her bedroom window, or a...
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Two Moral Persons, One Court Decision
By: Michael Menconi On November 24th, Erick Munoz discovered his 33-year-old wife, Marlise Munoz, unconscious on the floor of their Texas home. A tragic consequence of a pulmonary embolism, Marlise was...
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Environmental Ethics and Nature: Is All Nature Natural?
By: Michael Menconi Dr. Gregory Kaebnick of the Hastings Center giving a lecture at Fordham University What exactly is nature? Is nature defined by sprawling man-made public parks at the center of the...
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The United States v. Marijuana: Hidden Moral Arguments in the Room?
THC, the active ingredient in marijuana via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol By: Ken Ochs President Obama recently stunned many physicians, members of Congress, and legal experts—as...
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Center for Ethics Education Hosts Careers in Ethics Panel
Are you interested in studying ethics, but have questions about future careers in the field? The Center for Ethics Education’s second annual Careers in Ethics panel will give students the opportunity...
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Was it ethical for the American missionaries to be treated for Ebola ahead of...
Players of the ”L’Etoile de Guinee” football team poses with a sign reading ”Stop to the ebola epidemic” prior to a football tournament gathering youth from Guinea near the Koumassi sports center in...
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Compassion Across Borders: International Disparities in the Vocation of...
The following essay was the first-prize winner of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education’s 2014 Dr. Kuo York and M. Noelle Chynn Undergraduate Prize in Ethics, an essay competition to...
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Options or oppression: What do new egg freezing job benefits mean for women?
Egg storage for IVF. Photograph: Science Photo Library/Getty Images By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Ever since the news broke on Tuesday of Facebook and Apple’s new policy of including egg freezing as a job...
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Dr. Elizabeth Yuko appointed to international bioethics advisory board
Fordham University Center for Ethics Education bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Yuko has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), an independent, non-profit organization...
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Buy Buy Baby? The Ethics of Crowdfunding Babies
By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Between adoption and advancing reproductive technologies, there are ever-increasing options for individuals and families who wish to have a baby. Recent reports indicate that...
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Measles Outbreak: A Public Price for the Preeminence of Autonomy?
Image via By Ken Ochs The recent measles outbreak has led to policy discussions among 2016 presidential hopefuls, a systematic mobilization of public health groups to combat the surging number of...
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Is the moratorium on editing the human genome ethically justifiable?
Last month, leading scientists called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of new technologies that would enable editing of the human genome. If put into practice, this technique has the ability to...
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What Mad Men’s Betty Draper-Francis Can Teach Us About Paternalism in Medicine
January Jones as Betty Draper-Francis on AMC’s Mad Men. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Warning: spoilers ahead. The penultimate episode of AMC’s Mad Men provided an all-too-familiar portrayal of the...
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Immigrant Detention, Genetic Testing, and Moral Obligations to LGBT Youth:...
The Fordham University Center for Ethics Education is hosting a 3-day intensive cross-disciplinary graduate course entitled “Theories and Applications in Contemporary Ethics.” The course will take...
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Dignity, By Virtue of Bodily Requirements
Felix Gonzales Torres, Untitled (1991). STUDENT VOICES By: Robert Schmaltz “Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life…” ~ Hans Jonas (1984) Human...
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Should a UK woman be able to fertilize, implant and gestate her deceased...
Via CNBC By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. While many parents of children of childbearing age make no secret of their desire to become grandparents, one woman in the UK took her request to the High Court....
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‘Family is Family’: Why Intel’s New Adoption & Fertility Policies are a Step...
Via freedigitalphotos.net By Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. This week Intel announced new job benefit policies that include tripling their adoption assistance program, and quadrupling their fertility coverage,...
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Transplant Tourism, A New Kind of Trade: Ethics of Kidney Transplants,...
Image via freedigitalphotos.net STUDENT VOICES | 2015 CHYNN PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION By: Christina Sailer One of the great miracles of modern medicine is the ability to save a dying patient through...
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