Like many other elite athletes, National Football League (“NFL”) players typically have a short playing career, often leaving the league due to injury or lack of interest from teams before they have been able to prepare sufficiently for life after the league. This qualitative study examines...

This article addresses the ethical concerns associated with offering monetary compensation to research participants and particularly explores the ways in which such payments may unduly influence those recruited as subjects for study. Ethical problems arise when the prospect of compensation...

In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy, and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry, and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these...

In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy, and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry, and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these...

This chapter uses the controversy over mandated contraceptive coverage in employer health plans as a jumping-off point to do two things: (1) evaluate the proper scope of religion in the workplace — not among employees, but rather employers; and (2) assess the implications for employers' role...

Modern ethical and legal norms generally require that deference be accorded to patients' decisions regarding treatment, including decisions to refuse life-sustaining care, even when patients no longer have the capacity to communicate those decisions to their physicians. Advance directives were...

Written as an "At Law" column for a bioethics audience, this short essay addresses legal and ethical questions arising from the use of genetic information for law enforcement purposes. Do we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our genetic material or is it like garbage on the curb? What...