ROCHESTER, New York — “Why is the church against using birth control?” “Is it ethical to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that has a link to fetal cell lines from abortion?” “What should Catholics consider ...

Alasdair MacIntyre’s (1929–2025) work in moral philosophy was wide-ranging, erudite and controversial. Following his death in ...

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 ...

A new Penn Nursing initiative explores the impact of federally funded international bioethics training programs. The collaborative initiative, published in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human ...

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, ...

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.

Margaret R. McLean delivered this address to the Keck Graduate Institute Convocation in September 2010. She is associate director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Director of Bioethics.

With bioethics squarely in the news comes new scrutiny on exactly what it takes to train a bioethicist. Download PDF It is hard to read a newspaper, watch a news show, or listen to the radio without ...

Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists. In his article, Pinker wrote that delays caused by bioethical regulations can lead to loss of ...

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