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.

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 ...

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.