On February 3rd at 7PM ET, we hosted a professional development webinar with GBH Education highlighting science and history PBS LearningMedia resources for Black History Month lessons and programming ...
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 ...
In the mid-1960s, James M. Gustafson, a professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, mentored a cohort of remarkably talented students. Many of those young scholars, united by their ...
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, ...
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 ...
These are times of crisis. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of a form of Cold War raised international concerns about Health & Well-Being, Climate & Biodiversity, and Technology & ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...