Does money make bioethics go 'round?

Good Without God: Bioethics and the Sacred

Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioethics to the universal problem of suffering, and 2) the professional proselytizing or "missionizi...

Bioethics as commodity: does the exchange of money alter the nature of an ethics consultation?

of the Bioethics Examiner, saying she enjoyed our articles about larger policy questions, and suggesting that the field of bioethics has been conspicuously silent on the issues surrounding the recent agreement between state attorneys general and the tobacco industry. Now that President Clinton seems to have rejected that plan in favor of further negotiations, the debate will be rejoined. How ca...

Eli Student Voices

A long time ago, there was a beautiful girl named " Mariah ". Mariah has a pure beauty like an wonderful smelling flower that can make any man's heart go round and round just concentrically. She has curly golden hair, azure eyes, coral lips and a dimple on her face. She has soft skin like a baby and always is odoriferous. Mariah not only has these about her. Mariah's silky words and her beautif...

Money matters.

Global health and justice.

In Australia, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland, the average life expectancy is now greater than 80 years. But in Angola, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, the average life expectancy is less than 40 years. The situation is even worse than these statistics suggest because average figures tend to mask inequalities within countries. What are we to make of a world with such inequal health prospects...