(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethics is the application of values and moral rules to human activities. Bioethics is a subsection of ethics, actually a part of applied ethics, that uses ethical principles and decision making to ...

THERE IS A LONG TRADITION OF BIOETHICAL REASONING within the Roman Catholic faith, a tradition expressed in scripture, the writings of the Doctors of the Church, papal encyclical documents and ...