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Consequences and Conscience: The Ethical Pitfalls of Using Consequentialism to Justify Unethical Experimentation
Source : Pexels This paper will ultimately focus on the ethical pitfalls of using various derivatives of consequentialism to justify...
Justice and CRISPR: Diving Deeper into Issues and Inequalities Perpetuated by CRISPR
Image from Wikimedia CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, edits genes in living organisms with the...
The Ethical Implications of Increasing Access to IVF, When Considering Socioeconomic, Regional, Ethnic, and Race-based Exclusivity
Advances in technology in the past half-century have made it possible to create a life outside the human body. In vitro fertilization (IVF) - has been available for over forty years but still is not equally accessible to infertile people of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds. Multiple barriers prevent the widespread use of this tool. This raises several ethical questions. Is IVF ethical? Is it ethical to allow some patients to access IVF when they are not equally availab
*A School's Responsibility in Providing Mental Health Support
Image by Chanut is Industries from IconFinder Exploring the benefits of mental health services through a public health perspective, this...
*Finding the Line between Profit and Patients: The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Detailing
Stethoscope Icon This paper discusses the ethics of pharmaceutical and academic detailing, touching briefly on direct-to-consumer...
*The Unspoken Dilemma of Inadequate Health Infrastructures in Developing Nations
An exploration of the ethical obligations of developed nations in ensuring the value of human life Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Do...
*Justice in Covid-19 Crisis Triage: Race Equity and Maximization
Image from pixabay This research paper explores crisis standards of care in the COVID pandemic and the issues of justice within scarce...
Profit vs Access: An Ethical Commentary to Pharmaceutical Pricing in Relation to Patient Access
Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay Medical costs have been drastically increasing for many Americans. One factor that has influenced...
The Rise in Ageism during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Relation to Scarce Resource Allocation
Source: Pixabay This paper will focus on how the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the elderly community and has shed...
Ableism in COVID-19: Insight into medical injustices suffered by people with intellectual or developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Image from Pixabay This research paper explores the implications of ableism in the medical field, specifically within the COVID-19...
Human Challenge Trials and COVID-19: The Risks, Rewards, and Ethics Behind Rapidly Developing a New Vaccine
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay As the historic COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly around the globe, medical researchers in the UK...
Rewarding Reciprocity: The Ethical Implications of Organ Allocation
Image from Pixabay This research paper explores the ethical implications of organ allocation. Due to an organ shortage crisis, where the...
The Ethical Implications of Cosmetic Surgery and Autonomy Under the Beauty Industry
Table of Contents Source: Rawpixel Abstract Introduction Introduction to Cosmetic Surgery Effect of Beauty Standards on Women Impact of...
Sterile and Sinister: The Ethics of Plastics in Healthcare
Image by alexroma from Pixabay Are single use plastics necessary in healthcare? Does the industry have an obligation to limit its use if...
Defying Death: Cellular Reprogramming to "Cure" Aging
What if we could live forever? What would be the consequences of eliminating aging from society? Would we still be human? All of these...
It's for your own good: The Ethical Implications of Involuntary Forced Treatment for Patients Who Suffer From Anorexia Nervosa
Photo on Pixnio Table of Contents Abstract Introduction The Issue with Treatment Involuntary Forced Treatment Legal Intervention...
The Capacity to Choose: The Ethics of Euthanasia for Those With Psychiatric Illnesses
Image from Pixabay Euthanasia is typically viewed as a controversial practice, even more so as it has been legalized for those with...
The Ethics of Modifying Potential Pandemic Pathogens
Table of Contents " Army scientists energize battery research " by U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command is licensed under ...
Brain Organoids: Revolutionizing the Future of Neuro Experimentation
" Brain Organoid " by National Institutes of Health (NIH) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 . The technological advancement of human...
Planet Under Pressure: The Ethical Implications of the Hydraulic Fracturing Industry
Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking”, is a process utilizing drilling technology for extracting oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, or water from deep underground. The first facility opened for operation in the United States in 1947. Today over 1.7 million wells are used in the fracking process, with 7 billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas having been extracted in the last 70 years. However, with these high quantities of natural
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