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Current NFL Safeguards Won’t Help Jason Witten’s Spleen
BY ARTHUR CAPLAN, ARTHUR MILLER, & LEE IGEL In the first game of the NFL season last Wednesday night, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten had two catches for 10 yards in his team’s
Read More »Wayne McDonnell on Be Your Own Fan TV
NYU Clinical Associate Professor Wayne McDonnell talks hot stove baseball with Be Your Own Fan host Tyler Tumminia. This episode aired before the 2010 baseball season
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Bob Boland: Inside the NFL Combine Interview Sessions
When most folks watch and read about the NFL Combine, they’ll be checking out the fastest times, the highest jumps and all of the other workouts that take place. However, the cameras are never
Read More »NYU Invites a Prominent American Bioethicist to Consider Health Issues Around the World
Not all humanities scholars who take an interest in science and medicine grasp the different intellectual worlds those fields occupy. You’ve got a problem, says Arthur L. Caplan, if doctors, nurses, and research scientists
Read More »A Moment Of Silence For The ‘Munich 11′: Politics As Usual For The IOC?
BY LEE IGEL With delegations from 205 countries, more than 100 heads of state, tens of thousands of journalists, hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and millions of fans planning to attend, this summer’s Olympic Games
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Did Molestation Continue Because Sports Are Too Important?
The Program in Sports and Society at NYU August 26, 2012 0BY ARTHUR CAPLAN Hi. I am Art Caplan and I am at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. I head the Division of Medical Ethics here. I am going to talk to you
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