Part 2 on First, Do No Harm
Part 2 of my appearance on Dr. Mark Rollo’s program, First, Do No Harm. We talk more about the eugenic history of bioethics, the divisiveness of radical autonomy, and the…
Category: End-of-Life Decisions and Forms
Airing Sunday on WQPH
Dr. Mark Rollo has an outstanding radio program on medical ethics that airs every Sunday on WQPH. I had the great honor and pleasure of appearing with him to discuss…
Leith and Suffering
Locked In Syndrome is a condition in which a person is able to think, see and feel but cannot eat, talk or move any muscles except his or her eyes.…
Not So Subtle Coercion
The Guardian newspaper recently published an extensive and informative article on euthanasia and assisted suicide, Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? I have written about how coercion is…
Autonomy, Except for Religious Reasons
In Australia, a judge has ordered that a pregnant teenage who is a Jehovah’s Witness receive a blood transfusion should she need one when being induced to deliver her baby.…
“Fraud” in Medicine
One bioethicist who would like to see people more frequently denied healthcare that he deems “futile” is up in arms because in “a new study, researchers found that zero physicians…
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored
By John P. Slattery. May 21, 2018. Original post in Religion Dispatches After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers…
Seasons of Caring
I sit here waiting for Mom at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. As we make our way from the lab to the doctor’s station to the transfusion suite, I see so…
Nature and dignity 