Engaging Bioethics: Holistic Healing Takes More Than Medicine
KIE affiliated scholar Carol Taylor discusses the Affordable Care Act, the Jesuit ideal of caring, and the nature of health and healing in this editorial in The Hoya.
Editorials
Engaging Bioethics: How Would a Just Warrior Handle Syria?
KIE scholar John Langan asks tough questions about the current situation in Syria through the lens of just war theory for this installment of Engaging Bioethics in The Hoya.
Engaging Bioethics: Democratizing Bioethics in an Online Classroom
KIE graduate fellow Travis Rieder discusses the ethics of massive open online courses in The Hoya, taking a critical look at the KIE’s own MOOC, due out this spring on the edX platform.
Engaging Bioethics: Past Research Abuses Reveal US Hypocrisy
KIE scholar Tom Beauchamp tackles the Nuremburg Trials, research abuses in the US from 1940-1970, and the current status quo in research ethics in an editorial in The Hoya.
Engaging Bioethics: Does Mother Nature Know Best?
KIE graduate fellow Kelly Heuer examines the so-called “wisdom of nature” argument in bioethics and finds it lacking in an editorial in The Hoya.
Engaging Bioethics: Employer Health Plans Needlessly Mandate Values
KIE scholar Robert Veatch argues that employer-mandated health insurance plans constrain individual choice and autonomy over health choices for employees in this editorial in The Hoya.
Engaging Bioethics: Confronting Conscientious Objection
KIE director Maggie Little takes to the pages of The Hoya with an editorial analyzing the moral dimensions of conscientious objection among health care providers.
Engaging Bioethics: Health Laws Too Tame
In this editorial in The Hoya, PhD candidate Yashar Saghai, whose dissertation is being supervised by KIE faculty, looks at paternalistic health laws across the US and argues that they don’t go far enough.