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Category: Psychiatry
In 2007, the American Psychological Association commissioned their Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation. The background is this: early in the history of mental health treatment efforts, homosexuality was considered to be an illness. Therefore, it was...
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Category: Bioethics
The topic of neural enhancement has created controversy. This came to wide attention in late 2007, upon the publication of various articles in Nature, as noted by Shelley Batts, Janet Stemwedel, David Dobbs, Daniel MacArthur, Scicurious and others. But so...
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Category: Armchair Musings
Dr. Richard Friedman, professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, has an article in the New York Times. In it, he claims that reforms in medical residency training may be leaving young doctors "a little more hesitant...
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Category: Bioethics
The NEJM has published a provocative article about the ethics of the globalization of clinical trials. (The article is openly accessible.) The big issue is this: clinical trials are very expensive. It is cheaper to do them overseas, but this...
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Category: Psychiatry
Ever since the inception of the Global and Perpetual War on Terror, there has been concern about the role of professionals with training in psychology and psychiatry in the design, conduct, and interpretation of torture programs. The American Psychiatric Association...
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Category: Medicine
JAMA has an article on the history of continuing medical education (CME). Annoyingly, they did not make it one of the open-access articles, so they don't get a link. However, there are some telling excerpts and some good commentary over...
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Category: Bioethics
Gardasil is the vaccine from Merck that greatly lowers the risk of infection from some human papilloma virus (HPV) infections. The first big controversy had to do with the practice of giving the vaccine to young girls. To be most...
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Category: Bioethics
Here at ScienceBlogs, we've regularly posted about the thorny issue of antibiotic overuse, and the subsequent antibiotic resistance. This is a good example of evolution in action; it's also a good reason why we need to study and understand evolution....
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Category: Bioethics
A fellow blogger, Logtar, tipped me off to a controversy, and asked if I had anything to say about it. The controversy has come about over an exhibit: Bodies Revealed. It's a traveling exhibit that displays plastinated human cadavers. The...
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Category: Bioethics
The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Baze v. Rees (WaPo, NYT). This is a case about a guy who killed a sheriff and a deputy. He is on death row in Kentucky. Kentucky plans to execute him using...
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