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Master of Science in Bioethics Bioethics

WEBHarvard Medical School’s Master of Science in Bioethics degree program— one-year, full-time in person or two-year, part-time online —provides students with rigorous academic …

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The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More …

WEBThe American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor. 272 pp. New York, NY, PublicAffairs, 2013.

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Course Descriptions Bioethics

WEBHarvard Medical School Master of Science in Bioethics program offers a variety of courses on current and emerging topics in bioethics. Between the master's program offerings …

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Bioethics and The Future: Can Progress Be Tamed

WEBBioethics is the natural child of scientific and medical progress, born and raised in the 1960s, and still growing. My musings, and indeed, argument for the future of bioethics is based on the necessity of finding the best balance between the benefits and harms of progress. I chose progress for a simple reason.

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Informed Consent and the Revised Common Rule Bioethics

WEBIn January 2017, the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a major update to the Common Rule, the federal regulations that govern the protections of human research participation in federally funded research. The explicit goal of this update is to increase …

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Fellowship in Bioethics Bioethics

WEBThe Harvard Medical School (HMS) Fellowship in Bioethics is a one-year, part-time academic certificate program designed for those with a serious interest in …

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About Us Bioethics

WEBThe Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics’ mission is to ensure that values and ethics are always part of medical training, laboratory and clinical research, and …

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Precision Medicine: What is the price of progress

WEBIn 2015, President Barack Obama announced the $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative, calling it “one of the biggest opportunities for breakthroughs in medicine that we have …

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'A Person-Centered Approach to Kidney Care' Bioethics

WEBUnini Odama, MD, MPH, MBE, a recent graduate of the MBE virtual program, published new insights on 'person-centered' kidney care delivery with co …

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Moral Expertise in Clinical Ethics Bioethics

WEBFurther, by “clinical ethics expertise” we mean “the competence to help others make better moral decisions” in health care contexts (Watson and Guidry-Grimes 2018: 11). We contrast this sort of “practical moral expertise” with “academic moral expertise,” which is academic competence to engage with the major debates in ethics

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Harvard Ethics Consultation Skills Course Bioethics

WEBThe Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is excited to be offering the third annual Harvard Ethics Consultation Skills Course, a one-of-a-kind immersive course aimed at …

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Kelsey N. Berry Bioethics

WEBKelsey N. Berry, PhD, is faculty at the Center for Bioethics and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she is also Associate …

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Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia Bioethics

WEBThe Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia is a monthly series that convenes two international experts from different fields or vantage points to discuss how biomedical …

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How Do Individuals Who Were Conceived Through the Use of …

WEBIntroduction. With the advent of 23andMe and Ancestry.com, DNA testing is readily available for anyone who can afford it. In 2017 alone, more than 12 million people had their DNA analyzed from take-home kits, and by the end of 2018 it was estimated that altogether 26 million individuals had taken an in-home DNA test. Some individuals who …

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Choosing Death over Suffering Bioethics

WEBChoosing Death over Suffering. For the first time, many physicians, regardless of specialty, are being forced to consider what the standard of care will be for informing patients about “assisted suicide” or "physician aid-in-dying ” (PAD). The American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Medical Ethics does not condone physician

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Is It Ethical for Doctors to “Nudge” Patients in Decision-Making

WEBHowever, a “nudge,” Soled says, is a concept in behavioral economics that guides individual decision-making while preserving freedom of choice. In his 2018 …

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Organizational Ethics Consortia Bioethics

WEBHospitals, ACOs, health plans, professional societies, and other health-related organizations are increasingly dealing with the ethical dimensions of policies, …

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