In Memoriam: Fr. Kevin O?Rourke

From the Loyola University Chicago Neiswanger website:

Kevin O?Rourke, O.P., J.C.D., S.T.M., Dominican priest, canon lawyer, and health care ethicist died on Wednesday. �He is one of the seminal figures in Roman Catholic health care ethics in the United States. He is the author of numerous articles but his best-known publications are text books, especially a co-authored work (with Benedict Ashley, O.P.) published by Georgetown University Press,�Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis, fourth ed. (2007). He has been a leader in promoting respect for patients and their families to refuse unwanted and burdensome treatment at the end of life.…

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The Most Interesting Neuroethicist and Philosopher You?ve Never Met.

The Atlantic calls him “a Timothy Leary for the Viral Video age.” Jason Silva is a self-proclaimed “performance philosopher” who presents novel ideas and even more cutting-edge messaging about biotechnology, neuroscience and bioethics. Silva argues that “philosophical ideas are diluted by their academic packaging” and that academics don’t know anything about packaging. He’s probably right. We could all help ourselves and our scholarship and our ideas if we thought as much about the medium as the message.

Summer Johnson McGee, PhD…

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A Dark Side to Facebook?s Organ Donation Status?

I agree, mostly, with Art Caplan’s analysis of Facebook’s decision to add “Organ Donor” as a Life Event on their website. I agree that the DMV is about as poorly suited as a state organization could be to engage with citizens about the possibility of being an organ donor. �Facebook is undoubtedly the world’s largest megaphone for raising social awareness about issues–the media attention alone is likely to spur many Facebook users to think about being an organ donor, and maybe, if we’re lucky, to have a conversation with friends and family about it.…

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Cigarette litter is a hazard to our environment, with trillions of cigarette butts tossed out annually on the planet.

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Gratitude Quotes

Quotes about gratitude.

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Lung Cancer Risk Reduction

Reducing the risk of lung cancer: Two studies published in JAMA indicate that smoking reduction and a diet rich in phytoestrogens may lower the risk of lung cancer.

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One Year Smoke-Free Certificate Gallery

Use this milestone certificate gallery to select a certificate to commemorate the one year anniversary of the day you quit smoking.

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