Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2021 Guest editors: Christopher Mayes, Yin Paradies, Amanuel Elias Editorial Michael A. Ashby The Shifts in Human Consciousness Recent Developments Michaela Estelle Okninski Why Death Need Not Be “Reasonably Foreseeable”—The Proposed Legislative Response to Truchon and Gladu v Attorney General (Canada) and Attorney General (Quebec) [2019] QCCS…
Read the full editorial for free. “Can a Company be Bitchy?” Corporate (and Political and Scientific) Social Responsibility Leigh E. Rich and Michael A. Ashby PHIL Oh, God, Lem. You’re using science for no good. We took an oath we would try to do that less (Better Off Ted 2009a, “Bioshuffle,” episode 109). The American sitcom…
Read this photoessay for free. Remembering Stephanie Charlee Brodsky Stephanie Byram was my friend who died at age 38 of breast cancer. Stephanie and I worked together during her illness to share how she lived a full life, even with the dire prognosis of an incurable disease. We produced gallery exhibitions, various articles, a book, and a video. This essay is…
Proponents of medical humanities contend that the humanistic dimensions of medicine and health are a critical component of those disciplines; not only do these dimensions help us to understand the very nature of medicine and health, their apprehension allows caregivers to relate to their patients, to treat those patients with respect and dignity, and to…