Ethics Archive
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 …
By Luis GayAP, The Associated Press, conducted “a yearlong investigation” which discovered that Burmese slaves have caught some of the seafood sold in American grocery stores, restaurants, and even cat food. Through interviews, AP discovered that “dozens of men …
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 …
My six year old grandson informed me last Friday that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wants us to conquer hate with love. His teachers must be doing a great job, because that is the first time he has come home …
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York (center) with Michael Menconi FCRH ’15 (left) and Ken Ochs FCRH ’15 (right) On Thursday, June 5, 2014, Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education Ethics and Society blog student editors Michael Menconi FCRH …
By: Charles M. Olbert On September 16, the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education and Center for Religion and Culture hosted a conference to discuss whether we have a moral obligation to immigrants. Entitled “A Crisis of Conscience: What …
Ramin Asgary, M.D., M.P.H. By: Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D. Recent natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, and the tsunami in Southeast Asia and the Arab Spring resulted in an increase in short-term medical volunteerism. This type of …
Dr. Elizabeth Reed As a teenager growing up in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Reed became very familiar with scenarios of dating and sexual violence against women and girls, as well as the damaging impact of these forms of gender-based violence. She soon …
Players of the ”L’Etoile de Guinee” football team poses with a sign reading ”Stop to the ebola epidemic” prior to a football tournament gathering youth from Guinea near the Koumassi sports center in Abidjan on August 10, 2014. West Africa …
