Background : Beginning in 2010, an unprecedented lead-poisoning outbreak in northern Nigeria has killed more than 700 children and endangered thousands more. The outbreak exemplified the intersection of global inequality, material poverty, economic globalization, and poverty-dri…
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This thesis provides the first empirical explanatory theory for community authorization for Genetically Modified Mosquito (GMM) trials. Although this theory was developed in the context of GMM trials, it can apply to other endeavors, research or not, where whole communities migh…
This dissertation seeks to define the proper role for religious discourse in the American public square. I contend that religious viewpoints should be welcomed in public discourse, though this is often not the case. This project examines the background of current conceptions of …
The purpose of this study is to argue that the bioethical implications of religious issues in health care need to be more fully explored, not only for the benefit of bioethics, but most importantly for the benefit of those patients whose personal contexts are defined by religiou…
There are few places in a hospital that have as rich a bed of ethical, moral, and religious issues as the NICU. Physicians and staff of the NICU find themselves on the cusp of life and death caring for tiny lives wracked with illness. A conglomerate of ethical issues makes commu…
With no cure or disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (A.D.) and high-profile drug failures in recent clinical trials, there remains a global commitment to advancing dementia research and therapeutic innovation. As new clinical trials and research collaborations fo…
This thesis considers the history and evolution of television medical dramas beginning in the 1950s and spanning until current day. It assesses both the true accuracy and perceived accuracy of the information provided in these programs and questions the motivations for watching …
Bioethics is unique in that not only can it be viewed through many academic disciplines, such as medicine, religion, law, philosophy, and history, but it is also influenced by those other disciplines. This thesis highlights one aspect of medicine, the physician-patient relations…
In this dissertation the question addressed is the ethical protocol that should be used when enhanced, post or transhumans present themselves as patients to hospitals, or as subjects for scientific research. With the advent of the birth of four children who were genetically engi…
Objectivity is a valued principle in western allopathic medicine, and for good reason: it has been very effective in saving lives and improving quality of life since the nineteenth century. In recent years, however, there have been many visible accounts in social and mass media …
I argue here that it is possible to protect patients’ health while simultaneously guarding against forcing unwilling institutions or providers to provide treatments to which they object performing or furnishing personally. At the same time, basic and universally agreed upon best…
It is often remarked that we are entering into a biotech age that will afford us with the unprecedented means to remake human biology. The question is: should we use our imminent techno-scientific powers to ‘enhance’ and even ‘transcend’ our ‘natural’ limitations or remain human…
In 1993, a group of scholars gathered on the campus of Trinity International University to discuss the place of bioethics in the evangelical world. This meeting was the beginning of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD), the first evangelical bioethics research center …
The disconnect between physician religious belief and experience and that of their patients is a growing problem in medicine. As physicians shy away from important discussions of their patients’ values, patients begin to drown in the growing medical complexity and feel less resp…
The mental health of women veterans is influenced by gender-specific social and biological factors, and thus, they have gender-specific mental health care needs. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) telemental health system promises to improve the availability and quality of …