Should You Kill Your Disabled Child?

I've just read a remarkable book about this question:   Rescuing Jeffrey , by his father, Richard Galli. I got to the book via " C...

"By Blood" by Ellen Ullman

I've just finished reading a remarkable novel: By Blood by Ellen Ullman. I'd read in a review that the story is told by a disgraced...

The ethics of writing about children with mental illness

I was recently asked about the ethics of writing about children and adolescents with mental illness. I've edited the actual question to ...

Writing about Patients (and research subjects)

Last week I read a fascinating book by Charles Bosk - " What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography ." Bosk's first ...