This week, with ethicist Randy Cohen, we'll hear from a listener with a similar dilemma.
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It's not quite the dog days of summer yet, but we do have a canine question this week for our ethicist, Randy Cohen.
But Alta Charo, a professor of law and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said it was not so clear.
Tor Butler-Cole, a philosopher and ethicist from King's College, London, thinks we should be wary of allowing this technology to be used if it is not 100% accurate.
Ethicist Baruch Cohen once wrote that using data from Nazi experiments that involved cruelty and torture was like washing with a bar of soap made from concentration camp dead.
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The Ethicist advice-seeker wondered what she should have done.
OPR's investigation was so biased, so flawed, and so beneath the Justice Department's own standards that last week the department's ranking civil servant and senior ethicist, David Margolis, completely rejected its recommendations.
Gregg Bloche, a Georgetown University medical ethicist, warned of the need to manage the downside of "race-based therapeutics"--and predicted that it was only a matter of time before race was linked to the effects of other drugs.
The medical ethicist and philosopher Mark R.
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Now, as a Narrative Health Care Ethicist, I hold myself morally accountable for being the collective voice for those who are often silent or quiet because of social determinants or other roadblocks that prevent equal footing for patients.
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"Unless the senator is a physician, ethicist or other informed professional, he should step aside and let the medical professionals determine what is best in individual cases, " Dorothy West wrote in a letter to the editor of the Athens Banner-Herald, Hudgens' hometown paper.
In the text book Emotional Geographies, geographer Joyce Davidson (Queen's University), sociologist Liz Bondi (Edinburgh University) and environmental ethicist Mick Smith (Queen's University) dedicate an entire chapter to this complicated mix of emotions that Western travellers experience when they encounter fast food abroad.
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