By Martin A. Strosberg, PhD – Professor Emeritus, the Clarkson – Mount Sinai Bioethics Program In March and April of 2020, all eyes were on New York City, as they were for the cholera epidemics of the 19th century and… Read More
Paying What’s Due: Indian Residential Schools and the Canadian Health Care System
Irelie Riggle, MS in Bioethics student, Specialization: Policy In 2016, Indigenous people in Canada made up only 4.9% of the population, yet they have and continue to experience disproportionate rates of disease and infection. Indigenous people in Canada have been… Read More
Justice and Vaccination Priority: A Response to CDC and NASEM Proposals
By Rosamond Rhodes, PhD Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Associate Director of The Bioethics Program. This blog post originally appeared at Bioethics.net. As vaccine… Read More
Supervised injection: A way to curb overdose deaths
By Clair Hughes Ms. Hughes is pursuing a graduate certificate in bioethics at Clarkson. By now, the nation’s opioid problem is well known. An explosion in the use of heroin and other injected drugs has fueled a record number of… Read More
Can doctors become agents of social change in Mexico?
By Jorge Herrera, CECYPE General Director (Clínica de Enfermedades Crónicas y de Procedimientos Especiales), Graduate of the CREEI Program, Student of the Master of Science of Bioethics of Research – Clarkson University Irma is a Mazatec indigenous, poor among the… Read More
Human Breast Milk Sharing—Limited Regulation with Social Justice Implications
By Valeria Vavassori-Chen, MS-Bioethics Ms. Vavassori-Chen is a 2011 graduate of The Bioethics Program. After the birth of both of my children I found myself producing more milk than my kids could consume. I decided to donate my extra supply… Read More