Stories and Events Related to Military Ethics, Medical Ethics, and some fun. "Forest, Maker of Celexa, to Pay More Than $313 Million to Settle Marketing Case." Natasha Singer from the NYT reports on the settlement where a pharmaceutical company illegally marketed a drug for off-label use. The company was also accused of making payments to [...]
Many of us take it for granted that health care is readily available. Yet for many people in the world, including the uninsured in the US, health care workers are not readily available. I recently ran across an interesting website that may help people interested in providing or sharing community health care. Hesperian: Publishing for [...]
Stories and Events Related to Military Ethics, Medical Ethics, and some fun. “Judge: Military’s ban on gays Unconstitutional.” The Associated Press reports that the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay soldiers violates the 1st Amendment. “U.S. Marines free ship from pirates.” LA Times reporter Tony Perry reports that U.S. Marines freed a crew and detained [...]
It is sad that mental health issues continue to be stigmatized in society. This stigmatization is enhanced within the culture and climate of the military. There is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance when trying to reconcile a “Warrior Ethos” with the fact that good soldiers can experience mental health problems.
More thoughts while reading on the fourth edition of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars. What is the foundation of military professionalism? Walzer says that “some sense of military honor is still the creed of the professional soldier.” It would be informative to know what contemporary soldiers understand as “honor” within their activities. To paraphrase [...]
As I learn more about blogging I’ve decided to have this website focus more on military and medical ethics. Martial arts topics, fitness, and such will now be on our new sister blog site, LA Satori Iaido: The Satori Experiences of Tiger-San.
Stories and Events Related to Military Ethics, Medical Ethics, and some fun. “Getting to the truth of Pat Tillman’s death.” An LA Times article blurbing the upcoming movie “The Tillman Story: a murder, a cover up, a crime..” Watch a documentary that details the patriotism to Tillman, how the military propaganda machine tried to cover up [...]