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 ...

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 ...

Since 2006, the Feinberg School of Medicine has hosted the Montgomery Lecture Series, in which leaders in bioethics lecture weekly on topics shaping the field. Bioethics are, as Dr. Kelly Michelson, ...

The origin of medical ethics often boils down to the now-common expression “do no harm.” While an updated version of the Hippocratic Oath is still administered to many physicians as they begin their ...

Bioethics and Medical Humanities is interprofessional and multidisciplinary in its origin and in its current practice. Students must apply and gain acceptance to each program independently. Each ...

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University and senior advisor at the Hastings Center, a leading bioethics research institute, explained how narrative ...

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 ...

The Houston/Galveston Network is comprised of philosophers working at the intersection of philosophy and bioethics. The network is a collaborative between philosophy faculty and post-docs in The BCM ...

In 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Jason Weiner found himself in a moral quandary. An elderly Holocaust survivor was in serious condition in Los Angeles’ Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, where Weiner ...

A bioethics study published on December 8th calls on crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to ditch campaigns for unproven and unsafe medical procedures. People turn to GoFundMe for help paying for all sorts ...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? There is no universally agreed definition of AI. Broadly speaking, AI tends to refer to computing technologies that replicate or resemble processes and tasks ...

The Jammu & Kashmir medical council signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asia Pacific division and the Department of Education International Chair in Bioethics (UNESCO chair). The Jammu ...