Find case studies on topics in health care and biotechnology ethics, including end-of-life care, clinical ethics, pandemics, culturally competent care, vulnerable patient populations, and other topics ...

The International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune held its second annual international conference in Rome on May 17–18 to reflect on the bioethical challenges surrounding the health and care of ...

To provide a procedural mechanism whereby ethically and medically appropriate health care decisions can be made for patients who lack health care decision-making capacity and for whom no surrogate ...

Since the 1970s, the field of bioethics has grown considerably. While it is true that bioethics today includes medical ethics issues, its originality lies in the fact that it goes much further than ...

Lucknow: To promote ethical practices in medical education, research and patientcare, a bioethics unit has been established ...

A POWERFUL NEW technique for editing genomes, CRISPR-Cas9, is the latest in a series of advances in biotechnology that have raised concerns about the ethics of biomedical research and inspired calls ...

It is hard to read a newspaper, watch a news show, or listen to the radio without hearing the voice of the bioethicist. Cloning, stem cell research, genetic testing, gene therapy, managed care, organ ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Philosophy has a problem with expertise. The discipline is, at its heart, a form of questioning that struggles to provide for easy or ...

CWRU is home to the nation’s first PhD in Bioethics, created in 2004. Since then, we have trained a stellar group of scholars in bioethics and medical humanities that are advancing our field in many ...

In this interview, Mr Eugenijus Gefenas (Lithuania), Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC), explains what bioethics encompasses and why UNESCO is a unique place for the ...