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 ...

Definition: Bioethics is the systematic study of moral questions that arise in biology, medicine and the life sciences, especially where scientific capability affects human welfare, individual choice, ...

George Annas is a national treasure—a passionate advocate for human rights in health care, with the sophistication and scholarly reliability to warrant not only regular publication in the New England ...

A new Penn Nursing initiative explores the impact of federally funded international bioethics training programs. The collaborative initiative, published in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human ...

Saint Louis University's bioethics and health studies major asks students to analyze the ethical questions raised by advances in medical and scientific technology. It examines these questions both in ...

Margaret R. McLean delivered this address to the Keck Graduate Institute Convocation in September 2010. She is associate director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Director of Bioethics.

A multicentre Chinese study of 179 participants sets out what hospitals owe older bereaved parents in palliative care and ...

Bioethics, the law, and how they pertain to health information technologies, reproduction, and research have raised questions, and often hackles, since humans began to debate the boundaries of life.

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 ...

As graduate programs in bioethics continue to grow and diversify, picking the right one requires careful planning for one's postgraduate career. Whether you are completing an undergraduate or ...

Bioethics, the law, and how they pertain to health information technologies, reproduction, and research have raised questions, and often hackles, since humans began to debate the boundaries of life.