John Lantos
Is Comstock Coming for your Condoms?
When I was fifteen, there were only two options for buying condoms. They were available from vending machines in the men’s rooms of some...
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John Lantos
- Feb 29
- 5 min
Dying with dignity
Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...
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John Lantos
- Feb 29
- 4 min
Parents prayers in the PICU
Two stories. In one, Trondheim, by Cormac James, a young man collapses at a bus stop. In another, A Small Good Thing, by Raymond Carver,...
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John Lantos
- Feb 11
- 4 min
Who needs pediatric palliative care?
The central experience for families of dying children in the United States today is the experience of isolation. Childhood death has...
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John Lantos
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Shortcomings of Citizen Science
Amy Dockser Marcus argues that the way we do science has changed. As evidence, she tells the story of how parents of children with a...
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John Lantos
- Dec 18, 2023
- 1 min
Texas Abortion Decision
Sorry for the glitch on my last post. I'm working on it. My thoughts on the Texas Supreme Court decision can be read here:...
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John Lantos
- Nov 8, 2023
- 4 min
Tough Truths and Dissembling Discussions about Dying
Sigrid Nunez’ novel, What You Are Going Through, develops a new theme in the ongoing debate about the ethics of euthanasia and assisted...
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John Lantos
- Oct 25, 2023
- 4 min
Trashing genomics
Katherine Callahan, a neonatologist and bioethicist, offers a poignant warning about the dangers of new diagnostic genomic tests. She...
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John Lantos
- Oct 2, 2023
- 6 min
Suppressing free speech as a form of free speech?
Censorship is on the rise across America. With censorship, questions always arise about who gets censored, who gets to do the censoring,...
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John Lantos
- Sep 20, 2023
- 3 min
Another Autumn, Another COVID Jab. Or not?
In the United States, the CDC recommends the new COVID booster for everyone over the age of 6 months. In most of Europe, including...
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John Lantos
- Sep 11, 2023
- 7 min
I dare you: Read these two books together.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about turmoil in pediatric gender medicine. Nobody, not even leaders of the field, can explain the rapid rise...
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John Lantos
- Aug 27, 2023
- 5 min
Dying with dignity
Katie Englehart wrote a book trying to figure out what people mean by “death with dignity.” She proposes two very different ideas. One...
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