Category Law & Policy
Adolescent Consent: Culturally Relative or Universal?
Julien Brisson supports removing age-based restrictions on adolescent healthcare consent, advocating for decisions to be made on the adolescent’s capacity to understand the treatment.
Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Medical Fascism, & the Role of Bioethics
Florence Ashley connects conservative attacks against gender-affirming care to wider fascist movements determined to eliminate marginalized groups
The NY Declaration on Animal Consciousness: New or Very Old News?
Andrew Fenton examines the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness with an eye to a previous declaration and some current animal law and policies concerning scientific animal use.
Vaccines Treating Cancer: Would Anti-Vaxxers Change their Minds?
Chris Kaposy wonders about the impact of mRNA vaccines that treat cancer on the anti-vaccine movement.
The Mismanagement of Health Benefit Plans for Federal Employees
Pamela M White suggests that driving a hard bargain on the re-tendering of the federal employee health insurance plan but not performing due diligence resulted in poor service quality.
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