How can rapid advancements in medical technology, questions about the criteria for brain death and the rise of transhumanism ...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

The Department's highly successful Master of Arts program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities emphasizes the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Since 1995, it has provided advanced ...

Medical practitioners and life science researchers increasingly complain about bioethics as an inadequate endeavour that impedes both biomedical research and ethics itself. Some bioethicists have ...

Dr. Marielle Gross is the founder and CEO of heny, a decentralized biobank. Here’s where she says the blockchain and medical research studies overlap. Members of the heny team. CEO Marielle Gross is ...

A POWERFUL NEW technique for editing genomes, CRISPR-Cas9, is the latest in a series of advances in biotechnology that have raised concerns about the ethics of biomedical research and inspired calls ...

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 ...

Healthcare professionals have to change their perspective from viewing data as an asset to viewing patients as stakeholders whose trust underpins the entire system.

Find case studies on topics in health care and biotechnology ethics, including end-of-life care, clinical ethics, pandemics, culturally competent care, vulnerable patient populations, and other topics ...

If the coronavirus pandemic taught us anything, it’s that existing social inequities have an outsized impact upon the health of certain populations. This creates a need to think even more broadly and ...

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