On this day 75 years ago, Henrietta Lacks died of aggressive cervical cancer. She left behind a husband, five children, and a sample of her cancer cells — taken without her knowledge — that had already begun to replicate independently in a lab. Thread 🧵👇 (1/8)

#HenriettaLacks #HeLa #Bioethics

University of Washington is hiring:
Assistant Professor Tenure-Track in Bioethics and Humanities

#assistantprofessor #humanities #bioethics

Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review
03 Oct 2026 Issue 863
centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net
#vaccines #immunization #globalhealth #bioethics #vaccineequity #zerodosechildren
Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy –
GE2P2 Global Foundation [www.ge2p2.org]

📚🧠 HC Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger, whose work focuses on dementia and caregiving, reviews journalist Robert Kolker’s book, The Vanishing Family, in Science!

📖: https://bit.ly/4hIyC6E

#dementia #caregiving #bioethics

📋 Short 5–7 min academic survey about ethical decisions in medical emergencies.

Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/

18+ only. Participation is anonymous and handled under GDPR. #Ethics #Survey #Bioethics #AcademicChatter #MedicalEthics #Research #SocialScience

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - New Events, Ethics & Medical Aid in Dying, Brain Organoid Oversight, Gene-Editing Embryos, Ignoring AI Security, Paid to Peer Review, Stigma, Pandemic Declaration Rejection, Measles Outbreak Grows, Reproducibility, +More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Can solidarity make societies more resilient in the face of shared challenges?

Thank you SMER – the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics for creating space for this important conversation.

🎥 Watch⁠: youtu.be/GjjOqSb6Pr4?...

#GlobalHealth #Bioethics #PublicHealth #Research

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Community Priorities, Village Health Councils, Cross-Border Health Data, Decolonizing Bioethics, Reproductive Justice Response, LLM Prompting, Seeking Closure, When Nudges Aren't Enough, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Sjostrand and colleagues on a research ethics gap: in trials involving people with sexual interest in children, those most at risk of harm are not the participants. Guidelines say little about third parties. buff.ly/Ait6d83 #bioethics

Chanda Mwamba and colleagues asked prospective participants in Lusaka, Zambia what fair compensation for a typhoid challenge study would look like, before it began. Answers included medical coverage and tuition. buff.ly/dQy8ReG #bioethics

Arianne Shahvisi and Patricia Kingori in JME on unusable drug donations during humanitarian crises, and the labor, storage, and disposal costs quietly transferred to the receiving system. buff.ly/D5FzjjL #bioethics

#Bioethics Seminar, TODAY, Noon - Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD, "Medicine ex Machina: The Moral Economy of Drug Development". Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social room W1030. Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

A nuanced look at Switzerland’s national debate on expanding assisted suicide law. This article covers legal frameworks, ethical tensions, stakeholder perspectives, and the potential societal impact... Read more: wix.to/IMIt0WV

#Law
#Bioethics
#Switzerland
#HealthPolicy
#EndOfLifeCare

The 18th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, sponsored by WMA, takes place in Porto, Portugal, 28–30 Sept. Don't miss our special sessions on revising the Declaration of Taipei (28.09, 12:00–13:00) and the Declaration of Lisbon (30.09, 11:00–12:15). #Bioethics

Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review
26 Sep 2026 Issue 862
centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net
#vaccines #immunization #globalhealth #bioethics #vaccineequity #zerodosechildren
Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy –
GE2P2 Global Foundation [www.ge2p2.org]

Gautier later said her cell-culture work had been minimized; Lejeune’s defenders dispute that account. Prenatal screening raises another difficult debate: reproductive choice alongside concern that selective abortion can express or reinforce devaluation of disabled lives. #disability #bioethics

📋 Help with a short 5–7 min university study on ethical decisions in medical emergencies.

Participate here:
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18+ only. Participation is anonymous and handled under GDPR. #Academia #EmergencyMedicine #SocialScience #Bioethics #Research #MedicalEthics

My essay on Jeff VanderMeer's Borne is out in @sciphijournal — on care, uncertain personhood, and what we owe before we can classify something.
sciphijournal.org/index.php/2026/09/24/what-borne-knows-about-caring-for-the-unclassifiable/
#SpeculativeFiction #Philosophy #Bioethics

Anna Abrams and colleagues interviewed 27 clinicians at a level 1 pediatric trauma center on working alongside law enforcement in the ED: role ambiguity, worry about family trust, and almost no policy. buff.ly/1dSxTq5 #bioethics