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...statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants - because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. For its part, China's Ministry of Health maintains that Chinese hospitals perform "very few" transplants using executed inmates' organs. But Bek-Medical, a broker based in Japan that advertises "fast, cheap and safe" transplants for foreigners who are willing to travel to China, says...
...statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants-because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania...
...which are most vulnerable to pandemics, to developed countries. Fidler cited the United States spending more on preventing domestic bioterrorism than on combating AIDS in Africa as an example. While Fidler focused on the politics of public health issues, another panelist explored the moral tenets of policy making. Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that justice and fairness should be the guiding principles in making public health policy. He used personal anecdotes to suggest that there is currently “no strategy, according to any principle, to distribute health care resources, in the face...
...into human embryos as a kind of marker, to help them understand how disease develops. Some research involves the intentional creation and destruction of human embryos, however, which is controversial. ?I?m afraid that wasn?t the most precise moment of the speech,? argues University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan. ?The image he used was something like a minotaur, like he was trying to prohibit the creation of half-man, half-bull creatures. No one?s interested in doing that and it?s probably biologically impossible to do that. But what he was doing was making a nod towards...
...biggest online job-search company, Andrew McKelvey is worried less about competition from HotJobs.com or CareerBuilder.com than about his ongoing battle with newspapers for small companies' classifieds. He recently spoke with TIME's JEREMY CAPLAN...