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4A Pocketful of Justice: Will Digital Medicine Be Available to the Poor?Journal of Clinical Ethics 31 (1): 68-73. 2020.Digital medicine—a drug delivered with an ingestion sensor and related data collection system—has potential clinical value, especially for people whose lives are made more disorganized by poverty-related stress. It would be unjust if poor people were effectively barred from this treatment modality. Yet, unless a concerted effort is made to enable access through provision of smartphones to those who cannot afford them, this injustice will aggravate the digital divide in clinical care.
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1Analysis: A Legal PerspectiveJournal of Clinical Ethics 27 (1): 62-63. 2016.This commentary summarizes the uncertain state of the law regarding consent for posthumous gamete retrieval. The emergence of a legal framework will be aided by the kind of ethical analysis prompted by this family’s request for removal and preservation of a deceased patient’s ovaries.