Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Archive
By: Robert Schmaltz “Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life…” ~ Hans Jonas (1984) Human dignity refers to a kind of value that is difficult to distinguish without first recognizing …
Image via STUDENT VOICES By: Michael S. Dauber In the course of my studies and in my everyday experiences, I have often been asked about the significance of philosophy. What is it? Does philosophy even matter anymore since science answers …
Over the weekend, Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Postdoctoral Fellow and Program Administrator for the Adolescent Scientific Access Project Dr. Mimi Arbeit graduated from Tufts University with a Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development, and served as the student speaker for …
January Jones as Betty Draper-Francis on AMC’s Mad Men. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Warning: spoilers ahead. The penultimate episode of AMC’s Mad Men provided an all-too-familiar portrayal of the paternalistic nature of medicine via the handling of Betty Draper-Francis’s diagnosis …
Book Review: The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015). ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5. Reviewed by Michael S. Dauber Peter Singer’s new book The Most Good You Can Do is the latest installment in …
Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Director Dr. Celia B. Fisher On Thursday, April 30th, Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Dr. Celia B. Fisher was interviewed by ABC 7 Eyewitness News on the ethics of the right to biological …
Each episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff/prequel Better Call Saul features the main character involved in some sort of murky legal and ethical situations. After noticing that other podcasts and blogs that discuss the show had not yet adequately …
Last month, leading scientists called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of new technologies that would enable editing of the human genome. If put into practice, this technique has the ability to alter human DNA that is inherited, …
Six Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) fellows recently published articles in a special issue of the most recent issue of Ethics & Behavior. The special issue – guest edited by RETI and …
Image via By Ken Ochs The recent measles outbreak has led to policy discussions among 2016 presidential hopefuls, a systematic mobilization of public health groups to combat the surging number of cases, and the near-inevitability that tougher laws on vaccinations …
