Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...

When Randi Fain (’22SPS, Bioethics) began her medical career in critical care, she faced a different ethical dilemma every ...

Bioethics is clearly growing, but the field is also changing. Until recently, bioethics was quite clearly a multidisciplinary area; however, we are witnessing the transition of academic bioethics ...

Amy Gutmann, chair of the US presidential bioethics commission, discusses the challenges of bringing synthetic biology to the public arena. On the same day in late May that J. Craig Venter and his ...

A new Penn Nursing initiative explores the impact of federally funded international bioethics training programs. The ...

As England and Wales face the looming possibility of the legalization of assisted suicide, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre has ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a grant to Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University to ...

The rapid pace of human genetic research has led to an ever-increasing number of complex ethical issues. Accordingly, the need for combined training in genetic, bioethics and medical humanities is ...

In this course, you will Learn and develop fundamental "soft-skills" that generalize to thinking about ethical issues (in your life, in bioethics, and in the world more generally); You don't need to ...

Janetta's research interests center on organ transplantation ethics including transplanting organs from donors with HCV viremia and allocation of organs to patients with alcohol-related liver disease.

Bioethics is now taught in every Canadian medical school. The College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada require residency training programs to ...