A new piece on BioEdge talks about my blog post on a bioethics of loneliness.

Cook M (2018, December 1). “Ah, look at all the lonely people“. Bioedge.

Deregulating Anti-Kickback: More Than A Kick in Patients’ Wallets

“The proposed Administration changes are more like “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” than simply finding a better way to wash the baby. These anti-kickback regulations serve an important purpose: To promote patient trust that the physician is not making a choice to benefit their own pocket but instead is acting out of altruism to benefit the patient.”

BioethicsTV: November 26-30

Klugman CM (2018). Medical Humanities Teaching in North American Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Schools. Journal of Medical Humanities. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-017-9491-z

Although the AAMC requires annual reporting of medical humanities teaching, most literature is based on single-school case reports and studies using information reported on schools’ websites. This study sought to discover what medical humanities is offered in North American allopathic and osteopathic undergraduate medical schools. An 18-question, semistructured survey was distributed to all 146 (as of June 2016) member schools of the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. The survey sought information on required and elective humanities content, hours of humanities instruction, types of disciplines, participation rates, and humanities administrative structure. The survey was completed by 134 schools (145 AAMC; 31 AACOM). 70.8% of schools offered required and 80.6% offered electives in humanities. Global health and writing were the most common disciplines. Schools required 43.9 mean (MD 45.4; DO 37.1) and 30 (MD 29; DO 37.5) median hours in humanities. In the first two years, most humanities are integrated into other course work; most electives are offered as stand-alone classes. 50.0% of schools report only 0-25% of students participating in humanities electives. Presence of a certificate, concentration or arts journal increased likelihood of humanities content but decreased mean hours. Schools with a medical humanities MA had a higher number of required humanities hours. Medical humanities content in undergraduate curriculum is lower than is indicated in the AAMC annual report. Schools with a formal structure have a greater humanities presence in the curriculum and are taken by more students.

Symons, Xavier (October) Social Prescribing and the bioethics of loneliness. BioEdge

Klugman CM, Dunn L, Schwartz J, Cohen IG (2018). Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine” [Invited author’s reply]. American Journal of Bioethics 18(10): W4-W7.

Cuthbert, Lori (September) Octopuses Given Ectascy for Science for Science-But is that Ethical. National Geographic. 

“Craig Klugman, a bioethicist at DePaul University, sees intent as an imperative: “Perhaps most important, there needs to be a goal for the research—an intention of producing something that will be helpful for veterinary or human medicine,” he says.”

“There remains a need to examine the ethical landscape of digital medicine as these new drug-device technologies enter the market and become more widely used. This article seeks to map that landscape.”

Klugman CM, Laura B. Dunn, Jack Schwartz, I. Glenn Cohen. 2018. The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine. American Journal of Bioethics 18(9): 38-47.

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My new paper on The Health Humanities and the Future of Publishing is now live on Humanities Futures at the Franklin Humanities Institute of Duke University. Click here to access. 

This paper offers a multimedia platform using text, hyperlinks and original comics.

Abstract: The Health Humanities is a new field that has grown out of and expanded on the work begun in the “medical humanities,” an area of study established in the mid-twentieth century.  This paper discusses the evolution of the field and examines the effects that changes in publishing may hold for its continued development, including open access, pre-print servers, textbooks, ebooks, blogs, and other innovations that might presage a non-print—and even post-text—future.

I was interviewed for a segment on the ethics of execution in Nebraska on HBO’s Vice News Tonight (August 14, 2018).

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (Monday-Tuesday, March 18-19, 2019)