Sentences with phrase «ethicists at»

Medical ethicists at Johns Hopkins and Brigham and Women's Hospital provide a roadmap to the health care holy grail of higher quality, lower cost care via referrals, while avoiding the ethical pitfalls of managed care in the 1990s.
Tristan Harris, a former Design Ethicist at Google, who The Atlantic Magazine called the «closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,» currently heads the Center for Humane Technology.
That Facebook failed to immediately disclose the handoff of profile data by developer Aleksandr Kogan was an ethical misstep, said Peter Jaworski, a business ethicist at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
It reminds us that one of the essential tasks that the theologian - ethicist at the seminary performs is to help pastors, and through them congregations like Broadway, to appreciate the significance of their common acts.
I'm was reading Traci West's (a womanist ethicist at Drew University) Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter.
In fact, as John Fletcher, ethicist at the University of Virginia, has said, «You don't have to be religious to realize that there ought to be a debate about....
«It's the height of epistemic arrogance,» says Adrienne Asch, an ethicist at Wellesley College, of Singer's approach.
Stackhouse, an ethicist at Princeton Theological Seminary, posits that theological ethics should help us to understand and assess the ethos surrounding globalization and then help us to shape it.
Charles C. Camosy, a Catholic ethicist at Fordham University, argues that a moral consensus has emerged in the United States around the issue of abortion.
The resident ethicist at the New York Times even offers a guide to fully eunuchizing sex, advising a man who hopes to open his marriage without endangering it: «This may be an argument for the sin of Onan, where there's only yourself to fall in love with.»
For Julian Savulescu, an ethicist at the University of Oxford, the answer is yes.
But Leemon McHenry, a medical ethicist at California State University in Northridge who has investigated the use of ghostwriters on articles about other drugs, thinks that the practice stretches beyond these high - profile cases.
Speaking at a meeting last week of the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH, Jeffrey Botkin, an ethicist at the University of Utah and the committee chair, said that 47 of 53 lines considered recently were ruled ineligible for federal funding.
«The report rightly identified governance as a critical issue but it does not go far enough in advocating democratic engagement,» says Zahra Meghani, an ethicist at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.
«It's very difficult to find out why [a neural net] made a particular decision,» says Alan Winfield, a robot ethicist at the University of the West of England Bristol.
The first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self - control, whereas the second part is «consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,» notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an ethicist at Mendoza College of Business who was not part of the study.
«It sounds as if [they] are likely to proceed with cloning in humans despite animal data that raises concerns and worries about it,» says Mark Siegler, a doctor and ethicist at the University of Chicago.
Antiabortion people are upset because this would presumably lead to more abortions,» says Hank Greely, a biomedical ethicist at Stanford University.
A distinguished group including Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, and Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google, are rebelling against the craze they helped build.
I asked a few folks about facets of this, among them Peter Singer, the ethicist at Princeton who's written for ages on animal rights and environmental values on a finite planet.
Clive Hamilton, an ethicist at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, argued that humans have already entered a frightening period in planetary history.
«My read on it then was that it bordered on the heretical,» says Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist at Arizona State University.
«Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election — and only they have full access to what happened,» Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google told NBC News this week.
«We were on the inside,» said Tristan Harris, a former in - house ethicist at Google who is heading the new group.
«Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election — and only they have full access to what happened,» said Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google.
Social media companies — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Snapchat, YouTube and others — have been microtargeting users with millions of specific advertisements, images, videos and other elements that are aimed at driving engagement, argue the campaign's backers, led by CHT Executive Director Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google.

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As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»
My wife composed this double dactyl at about the time I finished my doctorate and became a «certified» theological ethicist.
Such a self - definition moves Lifton the psychiatrist much closer to the pastoral counselor, the ethicist and the spiritual director, and away from the «technicist» view of psychiatry so dominant at the moment.
Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.
Social ethicist Joseph Fletcher — author of Situation Ethics, Morals and Medicine and The Ethics of Genetic Control — is a visiting professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School and at the Texas Medical Center's Institute of Religion and Human Development.
The social gospel spawned ethicists who became social scientists, or at least read social science, in the interest of social transformation.
Included in the Niebuhr teaching dynasty were his late brother, H. Richard, the eminent Yale ethicist; his late sister, Hulda, who taught education at McCormick Seminary; and his nephew, Harvard theologian Richard Reinhold Niebuhr.
Anne Harley Hauerwas My wife composed this double dactyl at about the time I finished my doctorate and became a «certified» theological ethicist.
Gustafson, a leading Christian ethicist and former student of Niebuhr's at Yale, uses the occasion to scathingly attack those who have found Niebuhr's typology flawed or dangerously misleading.
The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging by gilbert meilaender eerdmans, 135 pages, $ 18 An esteemed Protestant ethicist (and First Things advisor and contributor) has here an extended essay that is at turns philosophical, literary, and biblical, and is throughout humane.
I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.
At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.
In October about 200 Christian ethicists issued a statement «about the erroneous use of Christian rhetoric to support the policies of empire,» as it was put by one signer, Glen Stassen, who holds an endowed chair at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Pia de Solenni, an ethicist and moral theologian, said the significance of Jesus Christ washing the disciples» feet resounds over the centuries: «At that time and now there's that sense of hierarchy, or that clergy are set apart, that they're somehow preferred.
I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.
At these historic summits a multi-stakeholder group of leaders (clinicians, consumers, policymakers, legislators, researchers, ethicists, and administrators) crafted a common agenda to address equitable access to high quality care across birth settings in the United States.
Dena Plemmons, an anthropologist at UC San Diego, is a research ethicist with both the Research Ethics Program at UC San Diego and the San Diego Research Ethics Consortium.
At a symposium sponsored by the Hastings Center on October 26 before the World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, ethicists and journalists explored the flip side of that discussion: whether parents have a moral obligation to make «better» babies through genetic engineering.
But as the project has evolved, members have emphasized that the part of GP - write focused on the human genome will move at a slower pace than the other genomes being constructed, and the effort will involve ethicists every step of the way.
The essay looks at the scientific developments behind these potential human enhancements and includes interviews with scientists, ethicists and religious leaders about the scientific and ethical dimensions of human enhancement.
Scientists and ethicists are taking a closer look at ways to create pluripotent human stem cells without involving embryos.
But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.
The tribe of some 400 neuroscientists, computational biologists, physicists, physicians, ethicists, government science counselors, and private funders convened at The Rockefeller University on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City.
An internal steering committee at NIH composed of scientists, ethicists, and animal welfare experts will now review proposals for chimera research.
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