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John Lantos
5 days ago4 min read
Can Bioethics be Funny?
Charles Baxter’s novel Blood Test tells the story of Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman, Sunday school teacher, and father of two...
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John Lantos
Dec 126 min read
IVF, Culture Wars, and "Joy"
How did in vitro fertilization (IVF) transform itself in the public mind from a morally disreputable practice to an essential medical...
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John Lantos
Nov 222 min read
AI, Genomics, and the 21st century physician
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak at the Uehiro Oxford Institute ( https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/ ) about some of the work ...
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John Lantos
Oct 96 min read
Research in Gender Medicine Sucks
Since 2017, the number of patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria (GD) nearly tripled, the average age of patients receiving this...
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John Lantos
Oct 74 min read
Survival After Court-Ordered Treatment Withdrawal
NR (as he is named in UK court documents) was born in 2020 with a malformed brain. He had, callosal agenesis, cortical dysgyria,...
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John Lantos
Sep 43 min read
Imane Khalif and Eero Mäntyranta
The controversy over Algerian boxer Imane Khalif couldn’t help but remind me of the great Finnish Nordic skier, Eero Mäntyranta . ...
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John Lantos
Jul 246 min read
Human sacrifice and the courage to fail
In their book, The Courage to Fail , Renee Fox and Judith Swazey describe the tension at the heart of research regulation. “Research...
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John Lantos
Jul 15 min read
Carl Elliott and William Faulkner
Carl Elliot suggests that whistleblowers are motivated by honor, rather than by concepts like human rights or professional ethics. He...
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John Lantos
Jun 243 min read
Whistleblowing: A Special Sort of Hell
Dear reader, I have become sort of obsessed with Carl Elliott’s new book. In it, he writes of his own experiences as a medical...
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John Lantos
Jun 83 min read
Is the West the Best?
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in different countries take different approaches to decisions about forgoing life sustaining...
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John Lantos
Apr 174 min read
Is Comstock Coming for your Condoms?
When I was fifteen, there were only two options for buying condoms. They were available from vending machines in the men’s rooms of some...
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John Lantos
Feb 295 min read
Dying with dignity
Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...
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