Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

10/30/2025

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Workslop, Why AI Hallucinates, Why AI Breaks Bad, In Love With A Chatbot, Sycophantic Chatbots, Misrepresenting News, Supercharging Inequality, Powering Surveillance Tech, Carebot Governance, + More

10/30/2025

A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos. 7 years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children. | w comments from our Jeffrey Kahn | WIRED

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.

10/30/2025

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup - Calming Drugs, Love Drugs, Cognitive Enhancement Attitudes, ChatGPT Symptoms, Why AI Hallucinates, AI Chatbot Is Not Your Friend, Pig Kidney Fails, If We Could Turn Back Time, Human Brain Organoid Research Attitudes, + More

10/29/2025

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Feels Like Home (Short Film): Lived Experiences of Children with Medical Complexity and Their Families, Global Warming Anxiety & Dilemmas, Scenes of Grief, Bridging Perspectives, Changing Words, Shame and Blame, + More

Berman faculty produce film showing how families with Children with Medical Complexity adapt their home environment to meet their child's and family’s needs Berman Institute faculty Rebecca Seltzer, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Hopkins School of Medicine, and Lauren Arora Hutchinson...

10/29/2025

When Home Is Everything: Our Rebecca Seltzer executive-produced a short documentary, “Feels Like Home”, which brings viewers into the lives of three families caring for children with medical complexity. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2025/10/when-home-is-everything

Visit the project website to learn more - and to watch the short film: https://www.feelslikehomefilm.org/

Media Matters: Conversation When Home Is Everything Photo by: Jennifer Bishop By Karen Nitkin on 10/06/2025 Johns Hopkins pediatrician Rebecca Seltzer executive-produced a short documentary, “Feels Like Home”: Lived Experiences of Children with Medical Complexity and Their Families, which brings...

10/29/2025

Listen now: On a planet with 8 billion people, what’s the argument for an individual doing the right thing if it’s barely a drop in the bucket? Travis Rieder joins host Krys Boyd to discuss.

Bioethics expert Travis Rieder joins Krys Boyd to discuss how individuals should consider their approach to climate change.

10/29/2025

Our Travis Rieder is in the new issue of "Surgeon's Call" from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Hot off the Press!

Our new issue of "Surgeon's Call" is here! This issue features a special book excerpt from Dr. Jonathan Jones' highly anticipated new book "O***m Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis."

Dr. Jones will be our featured speaker on November 1 at 3 p.m. at the Museum. He will be signing copies of his book for sale. We hope you'll join us!

Also in this issue:

▪️Dr. Travis Rieder, a bioethicist from Johns Hopkins University, takes a look at evolving attitudes towards opioid addiction and treating pain in our "On the Front Lines" column.
▪️Historians Damian Shiels and Harry Smeltzer share the stories of two Irish immigrants wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run.
▪️Dr. James Lett writes about the vital role medical cadets served during the Civil War.

Don’t miss it! Not a member? There‘s still time to join and get your copy!
https://www.civilwarmed.org/support/member/

10/29/2025

Scenes of Grief - Todd Meyers asks: After a fatal overdose, who remains, and what do they do with the pain? Our Travis Rieder reviews Todd Meyers book of poetry | Hub

Todd Meyers asks: After a fatal overdose, who remains, and what do they do with the pain?

10/29/2025

Anxiety over global warming is leading some young Americans to say they don't want children - with comments from our Travis Rieder | The Washington Post

Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children

10/28/2025

in the Academic Lit - This Week - Ethical Data Sourcing, Children With Medical Complexity, If We Could Turn Back Time, Defending Irreversibility, Justice in Global Health Authorship, Bioethics Education, Solidarity, Repro-Timing, + More

October 28, 2025 Ethical sourcing in the context of health data supply chain management: a value sensitive design approach Open Access, JAMIA Open Authors: Camille Nebeker, Jean Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Benjamin Collins, Ashley Cordes, Kadija Ferryman et al. The Bridge2AI program is establishing...

10/27/2025

TODAY, Noon EDT - Bioethics Webinar: Zoë Fritz, "What should you say when you are not sure?" Ethical, legal & empirical analysis of communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty - Free & open to all - link for more info and to join via Zoom:

Dr. Fritz will present a series of linked studies -- vignette studies with patients and with doctors, interviews and observations, case law analysis and ethical analysis -- to provide evidence in support of being open about diagnostic uncertainty. She looks forward to discussion on both the metho...

10/24/2025

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...