A new Hastings Center special report calls on the field of bioethics to take the lead in efforts to remedy racial injustice and health inequities in the United States. As an academic field concerned ...
The creation of genetically modified babies is not only ethically justifiable but "highly desirable," according to academic research from a leading UK bioethicist. Dr. Kevin Smith from Abertay ...
Santa Clara University has named Dr. Charles Binkley as the Ethics Center’s new director of Bioethics. As a surgeon, Dr. Binkley’s work focuses on professional autonomy, health care quality, and the ...
Russell Blackford is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. In a recent op-ed in the Boston Globe, high-profile ...
Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists. In his article, Pinker wrote that delays caused by bioethical regulations can lead to loss of ...
PARIS — The usual summer torpor had already settled on Paris when the French deputies gathered to decide on the country’s bioethics policies for the coming years. While French families were enjoying ...
Greg Pence, Ph.D., professor in the College of Arts Sciences Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, received the Outstanding Service Award at the 2024 Bioethics Bowl. The ...
Before we continue our Bioethics in a Pandemic series, we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick overview of the various principles that inform ethical decision-making in the health care ...
UAB also won titles in 2011 and 2016. “These students’championship builds on their extensive knowledge of bioethics, each having had two or three courses in this area,” said Gregory Pence, Ph.D., ...
From its origins as a small group of Johns Hopkins University scholars from diverse fields sharing a fascination with and appreciation for the ethics of health care and science, the Berman Institute ...
The young scientists had a question. They were working with mouse embryos from which all living cells had been chemically dissolved away. So far, so good, thought the bioethicist, as she listened to ...
Students explain bioethics issues from stem cell use to recombinant DNA-enhanced biofuel at a poster session. Bioethics programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics grow out of close work with ...