Arthur Caplan
6 life and death questions for ethicist Arthur Caplan
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 30, 2016
(RNS) Bioethicist Arthur Caplan looks at the moral quandaries posed by Zika and the Olympics, the right-to-die law in California and more headliner issues.
COMMENTARY: When it comes to personhood, science is a ‘category error’
By Jeffrey Weiss — July 8, 2014
(RNS) Science is all but useless in arguments about personhood. Because almost everyone who takes a position does so on the basis of religious belief.
Ethicists criticize treatment of brain-dead patients
By Liz Szabo — January 10, 2014
(RNS) Many doctors are questioning continued medical procedures on a 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead nearly a month ago, calling interventions to provide nutrition to a dead body wrong and unethical.
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