Gary Wills on Abortion

Gary Wills, one of my favorite writers, has thrown a constructive bomb into the abortion debate. In a Los Angeles Times column “ Abortion i...

The Ethics of "Skin in the Game" Thinking

An article on “ How Much ‘Skin in the Game’ do Medicare Beneficiaries Have?” in the November-December issue of Health Affairs presents impor...

Globalization, Mental Health Ethics, and Woody Allen

Three words in an article about outsourcing in yesterday’s New York Times got me thinking about globalization, mental health ethics, and Wo...

Cheating on your doctor

An amusing and useful story on MSNBC starts: “After 15 pleasant years with the same person, Marcia David started seeing someone else. As se...

The Ethics of International Public Health Collaborations

For the past three years I have had the privilege of being able to study the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), an idea...

A Needed Speech about Health Care Rationing

The October “ Election 2008 ” survey from the invaluable Kaiser Family Foundation election tracking project sent me to my file cabinet. In J...

Cancer survival, complexity, and ethics

Soon-to-be-published research on depression and cancer survival allows us to sharpen our thinking about the link between psychology and ethi...

Google, Nielsen, Health Care Limits, and Primary Care

Yesterday’s New York Times reported on a partnership between Google and the Nielsen company. The article made me worry even more than usual...

Information Technology, Ethics and Integrity

Today I learned about and visited IT expert John Halamka’s new blog – “ Life as a Healthcare CIO .” It is a very interesting site, and while...

Spurious Reasoning about Pharmaceutical Ethics

A recent New York Times Op Ed by Peter Pitts, President of the controversial Center for Medicine in the Public Interest , attacks the idea ...