Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine Archives

What could we owe to the dead?

Nov 18, 2022 bioethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Dead, Death, Philosophical Bioethics, Philosophy

“Ay, thou poor Ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away

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Celebrating bioethics and its role in our society

Jun 10, 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award Lecture, bioethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, ethics, Houston Methodist Hospital, Rice University

Across the globe, bioethicists are passionately researching answers to new challenges, asking difficult questions and uncovering new approaches that may one day alter how we

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Environmental justice: How physical, social, and structural surroundings impact health

Apr 29, 2022 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Discrimination, ealth outcomes, Environment, Environmental Justice, ethics, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, Marginalized Communities, policy

The environment—everything from the water we drink to the conditions in which we live—impacts health. Environmental justice is a broad term or movement that at