Peter Singer – A Slippery Mind

March 20, 2008medical decisionmaking, Our News & Commentary Blog, Peter Singer, reality checkStephen Drake

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has put himself into the media spotlight again. This time, he’s gone to defend the idea that professional judgment and state interests can trump individual autonomy. The “case example” he uses in his latest op-ed is the highly publicized case of Sam Golubchuk, an elderly man whose family has been fighting … Continue reading Peter Singer – A Slippery Mind →

Rush to Judgment Ends Lives of Newly Disabled

September 18, 2007bioethics, medical decisionmaking, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

I recently attended a medical ethics seminar held at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago that reaffirmed medical practice guidelines about brain injury. Doctors continue to agree that it is necessary to wait before they can predict brain injury outcomes with reasonable, though they also admit not total, certainty. For traumatic brain injury (e.g. car accidents), … Continue reading Rush to Judgment Ends Lives of Newly Disabled →