bioethicists-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 4, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , attorneys, bioethics.net, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, Hastings Center Report, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, John Hardwig, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope The Bioethicist Pandemic Wesley J. Smith May 4, 2020 Bioethics, Medicine 9 The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›
elderly Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 23, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, duty to die, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, Hastings Center Report, health, health insurance, John Hardwig, life, medical care, medicine, rationing, University of Illinois, utilitarianism A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly? Wesley J. Smith September 23, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 3 University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›
