These and even more provocative questions are the grist of bioethics, a relatively new field of philosophy that grapples with issues of morality in the context of health care and biotechnology.

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 ...

Bioethics Articles The Center offers a categorized list of bioethics materials including special sections on end-of-life decision making, pandemics, culturally competent care, patients in the care of ...

But one set of crucial concerns—those that go under the general category of bioethics/biotechnology—has received woefully short shrift, both in the campaign and the national discourse.

It is a unique meeting in the region, in which more than 50 experts from around the world will attend to focus on the link between bioethics and human rights. Under the title of "The reinvention of ...

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 ...

According to Dr. Megan Crowley-Matoka, director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Master’s program and organizer of the Montgomery Lectures, bioethics and medicine go hand-in-hand at Feinberg.

Leon R. Kass, the controversial chairman of President Bush’s advisory committee on bioethics, has announced that he will step down as chairman but remain a member of the panel. Mr. Bush has ...

Educator and research scientist Joni Beshansky, director of the online Master of Healthcare Administration degree program at Boston College's Woods College of Advancing Studies, was selected for a ...

UAB also won titles in 2011 and 2016. “These students’championship builds on their extensive knowledge of bioethics, each having had two or three courses in this area,” said Gregory Pence, Ph.D., ...