Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person | Journal of Palliative Medicine
Journal of Palliative Medicine
Grateful for this new review of Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person from the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
doi.org/10.1177/1096...
11.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to see several of our former Columbia University Bioethics Master's students at The University of Hong Kong!
11.11.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
RFK, Jr. fires NIH scientists who were whistleblowers about public health threats, raising ethical concerns
nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
#bioethics #RFKJr #science #nih #ethics #vaccines
07.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year
What will happen to Obamacare? Huge threat from Congress raises major ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com
#bioethics #trump #congress #republicans #GOP #taxcuts #healthcare
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...
29.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
God 2.0?
Robert L. Klitzman's Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person (Oxford University Press, 2024) offers a fervent apology for the increasingly crucial role of chap...
Review in the Hastings Center Report of my new book, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Link to book: amazon.com/Doctor-Will-...
#bioethics #chaplains #spirituality #religion #health #doctors
25.09.2025 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference
"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)
Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Conference in Paris, June 11–12, 2026.
I’ll be speaking there! Abstract submission deadline is 3 weeks from now.
Details: csb.eu.com/conference/
#bioethics #healthcare #refugees #climatechange #AI #Paris
24.09.2025 04:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Defiant Kennedy Defends Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up
RFK, Jr., Congressional testimony raises many ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com
nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
#vaccines #antivaxxers #Trump #publichealth #bioethics #measles #polio #healthcare
05.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
New AI abilities to 'read' ALS patient's words offers hope, but also raises important neuroethics questions--see @carlzimmer.com's piece in the @nytimes.com
nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
#bioethics #neuroethics #healthcare #neurology #brain #healthpolicy #law
15.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
Rising tide of fake scientific papers, which may increase due to funding cuts, raises major concerns -- see @carlzimmer.com's piece in @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
#bioethics #MedSky
05.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Obesity Prediction Could Be Guided by Genetic Risk Scores
New research suggests that polygenic risk scores predict childhood obesity; but ethical questions arise, given possible misunderstandings of relative risks & other factors.
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h...
#obesity #BigFood #genetics #health #bioethics #ozempic #healthcare
21.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Where Have All the Novel-Reading Men Gone?
Problems with ChatGPT in toys: my thoughts in today’s NYT's letter to the editor
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
#bioethics #ethics #AIethics #ChatGPT
16.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Don’t Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children’s Minds
ChatGPT Barbie poses concerns for children's mental health -- from @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
#bioethics #AI #AIethics #Congress #mentalhealth
30.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Independent Articles
Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope, and Needs for Regulations
Robert Klitzman
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health and Masters of Bioethics Program, Columbia University, New York, United States
Abstract
As surrogacy grows, many states and countries are enacting or considering relevant regulations, while others oppose it. Ethical, legal and policy
questions arise: how to balance the rights of various kinds of parents (e.g., heterosexual and same-sex couples and single individuals) against the
rights and well-being of surrogates. Concerns include risks of exploitation, autonomy, benefits of enabling prospective parents to create loving
families, and mitigating possible harms through regulations. Though a few instances of abuse have been reported in developing countries, these
do not appear to have occurred in developed countries, where robust regulations exist. The limited data available on surrogates in general
(i.e., including traditional and non-commercial surrogacy) do not suggest exploitation or trafficking. In 2021, New York State enacted robust
regulations allowing commercial surrogacy. Subsequent competing bills have sought to loosen or enhance certain restrictions. These
regulations may be a model for commercial surrogacy regulations elsewhere, but certain ethical, legal and policy questions remain (e.g.,
where to draw the line to prevent trafficking). Additional data and exploration of these challenges are crucial
Keywords: assisted reproductive technologies; ethics; policy; surrogacy; religion
Author @robertklitzman.bsky.social analyzes how regulations can strike a balance between protecting surrogates from exploitation and allowing people who cannot have children to become parents in "Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope and Needs for Regulations."
#Surrogacy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
13.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel
RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel contain anti-vaxxers, raising major ethical concerns
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
#bioethics #vaccines #RFKJr #CDC
12.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Comments on Autism Take America Back a Century
Kennedy implies that disabled people are a taxpayer burden.
RFK, Jr.'s comments on autism are inaccurate and pathologize autism -- from @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
#ethics #autism #autismspeaks #genetics #disabilities #disabilityrights #nih #vaccines #bioethics #healthcare #HHS #scientificfalsehood
24.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bioethicist @RobertKlitzman.bsky.social of @ColumbiaUniversity.bsky.social School of Professional Studies takes us from New Guinea to Central Park to a hospital bed. Listen: personplacething.org
23.04.2025 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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