(The Conversation) — On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous ...

The world of bioethics is defined by four basic principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Healthcare practitioners use these principles as their guiding force when evaluating the ...

Imagine the participants from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Georgia, Israel, Portugal, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States of America in the same classroom, learning about how to teach ...

Alan Petersen receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

An ontology is a conceptual roadmap, which standardizes how terms are defined and how they relate to one another. This is exceedingly useful in the era of digital medicine. For example, electronic ...

DOHA: The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is holding a seminar on the “principles of bioethics” at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies tomorrow. This is the first in a ...

Last time, we discussed head transplants and how philosophers are gearing up to address the ethical implications. Many pages and scholarly brain waves were spent in the Journal of Medicine and ...