Juli 2017

Brain Death: Legal Fiction Used to Justify Ending Lives Prematurely - Another California Lawsuit

Brain death is a legal fiction used to justify ending lives prematurely. That is how the family of Israel Stinson frames its argument in a n...

Thanh H. Neville Researchers at UCLA continue to unpack their research on potentially inappropriate critical care. In their latest piece in...

Senator Perry This week, the Texas Senate passed S.B. 11 . This bill adds a new section 166.012 to the Health and Safety Code that specifie...

Having talked with a few reporters, this week, about the status of the the lawsuits concerning Jahi McMath, I realized that is is essential ...

Udo Schuklenk has compiled the top 40 bioethics journals based on their Google Scholar h5 index. I am pleased to have recently published ...

ICU nurse Debbie Moore Black has a powerful short story illustrating a situation of potentially inappropriate and unwanted medical treat...

The 2017 ASBH conference in October 2017 includes over 400 workshops, panels, and papers in bioethics and the health humanities. Here are...

I was delighted to take some of my recent work on informed consent law and unwanted medical treatment and work with ASCO POST on two new art...

The 7th International Symposium on Brain Death will be held in Havana, Cuba, from December 5 to 8, 2017. Topics include: � Conceptual a...

ASBH has announced the following awards for the October 2017 annual meeting . Lifetime Achievement Awards ASBH announces two Lifetime Achi...

Check out this broadcast on Wednesday July 26 on Good Grief with Cheryl Jones. Phyllis Shacter's husband made a series of radical choi...

An interesting appeal is being briefed before the California Court of Appeal second district. In 2011, Cecilia Hoh entered Glendale Adventi...

In Spring 2017, ASBH successfully completed market research and a role delineation survey, which are critical steps in the development of a ...