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Mara Buchbinder, Dragana Lassiter, Rebecca Mercier, Amy Bryant, Anne Drapkin Lyerly. Published April 2016 in the Hastings Center Report. “It’s almost like putting salt in a wound, for this person who’s already made a very difficult decision,” suggested Meghan Patterson (an alias), a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist whom we interviewed in our...

Mary Beth Grewe, Yuntong Ma, Adam Gilbertson, Stuart Rennie, Joseph Tucker. Published January 2016 in the Journal of Virus Eradication. Women are underrepresented in HIV cure research. In this paper we discuss the rationale for including women and propose multilevel strategies to improve sex equity in HIV cure research. The...

Catherine Gliwa, Mary Beth Grewe, Stuart Rennie, Joseph Tucker, Raul Necochea. Published April 2016 in Pediatrics. Although many aspects of HIV cure research in pediatric populations are entirely without precedent, historical examples demonstrate how curative interventions may transform clinical practice and perceptions of disease over time. The history of pediatric...

The UNC Center for Bioethics and the Department of Social Medicine are hosting Dr. Susan E. Lederer this 2016 spring semester as the 2016 Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Professor at UNC and Duke University. Susan E. Lederer is the Robert Turell Professor of the History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University...

Douglas MacKay. Published January 2016 in Social Theory and Practice. Many high-income countries have skill-selective immigration policies, favoring prospective immigrants who are highly skilled. I investigate whether it is permissible for high-income countries to adopt such policies. Adopting what Joseph Carens calls a “realistic approach” to the ethics of immigration,...

Consensus statements from an international expert panel. Amita Gupta et al., including Anne Drapkin Lyerly, UNC Center for Bioethics. Published 15 March 2016 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Tuberculosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in women of childbearing age (15–44 years). Despite increased tuberculosis risk during pregnancy, optimal...

John Conley, Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis. In Discursive constructions of consent in the legal process. In this chapter we analyze the linguistic and discursive aspects of a specialized form of consent: informed consent given by people who contribute DNA samples to genomic biobanks, which are repositories of genetic material and...

Mara Buchbinder, PhD is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at UNC, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNC, and Core Faculty of the UNC Center for Bioethics. What does Bioethics mean to you? I think that bioethics is a broad interdisciplinary field for engaging ethical challenges in medicine and the...

Douglas MacKay, PhD is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at UNC, Duncan and Rebecca MacRae Fellow, and Core Faculty of the UNC Center for Bioethics. What does Bioethics mean to you? I would say it’s the normative and empirical study of ethical questions relating to the practice of medicine, research,...

Hard labour: the case for testing drugs on pregnant women Traditionally, expectant mothers have been excluded from clinical trials, but could this practice be doing more harm than good? Emily Anthes investigates. When the heart stops beating, minutes matter. With every minute that passes before a rhythm is restored, a...