The Bioethics Project
At Kent Place School
Justice and CRISPR: Diving Deeper into Issues and Inequalities Perpetuated by CRISPR By Sofia Keri CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, edits genes in living organisms with the potential to cure diseases. However, is the use of CRISPR modifications on somatic cells ethical through the lens of justice, especially with respect to sickle
Read MoreThe Ethical Pitfalls of Using Consequentialism to Justify Unethical Experimentation By Serena Zheng This paper will ultimately focus on the ethical pitfalls of using various derivatives of consequentialism to justify unethical conduct in the form of experiments on institutionalized populations. The question of whether it is ethical to justify the suffering of a group of
Read More“Educating the Public During a Pandemic”: The Role and Responsibility of the CDC By Alexandra Sinins ’22 The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly expanded the public’s knowledge about the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the United States government agency responsible for public health. Society knows about the CDC related to their announcements about the coronavirus, its
Read MoreA Responsibility to Rank: Public System’s Role in Individual Well-Being Presentation by: Kate Lowry and Cecelia Reali The COVID-19 pandemic is a national public health emergency that has dramatically exposed pre-existing pervasive health disparities in our society affecting two critical systems: healthcare and education. This presentation focuses on hospitals and schools while exploring their
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