My wonderful friend Mark Pickup has rerun an essay on his blog Human Life Matters by Dr. Dianne Irving on the history of bioethics. Irving was present at the birth of the field, dissents strongly from ...

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, ...

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In 1927, the ethicality of eugenics faced a major test in the U.S. Supreme Court. Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of ...

A study guide on the experiments was released Thursday by a federal panel that encouraged using the document to discuss ethics. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues suggested ...

Many bioethicists yearn to be part of the emerging technocracy, and want practioniers in the field to become arbiters of policy in areas far beyond healthcare. So they huff and puff to find ways to ...

Global justice and human rights are remarkably absent in discussions of bioethics. Julien Harneis Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist and public intellectual, argued in a Boston Globe op-ed that bioethicists—those who weigh the ethical implications of biological research—had a moral ...