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 ...

We’re undergoing [a] technological change that is going to totally transform the culture,” moral theologian Charles Camosy said. “How do we respond?” ...

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 ...

Bioethics is, and (I submit) should be, a thriving field for research, teaching, and practical implementation. In summary, the field of bioethics is legitimate and important - and I’ll continue ...

"Bioethics and Medical Humanities concerns itself fundamentally with value-laden issues that emerge in the delivery and practice of healthcare, biomedicine, the life sciences and human health more ...

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 ...

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 ...

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 1, No. 1, Doing Feminist Bioethics (Spring, 2008), pp. 7-27 (21 pages) This paper argues that the various approaches to ethics that ...

"Human rights and the principles of the Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights of UNESCO should be the basis for reflecting, re-evaluating social realities and establishing ethical criteria that ...

The term >Bioethik< was first used by Fritz Jahr 1926 in introducing the >Bioethical Imperative: Respect every living being in general as an end in itself and treat it, if possible, as such!<. The ...

Margaret R. McLean is the associate director and director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She presented this paper at “ The Spark of Conscience Inflames Debate: Conflicts of ...