It is a commonplace to hold that bioethics research has become increasingly competitive with increased application pressures for grants, decreased funders and funds available. One would expect that ...

A prominent philosopher and bioethics expert has quit the editorial board of The American Journal of Bioethics, calling into question the way articles are reviewed and the process for reviewing an ...

At dinner after a recent meeting about ethics and genetics, a guest told me that he had never been to a conference of bioethicists before. The person next to him sat up straight, as if insulted, and ...

Associate Professor Brian D Earp, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. The JME features articles on various ethical aspects of health care ...

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 ...

The Journal of Medical Ethics prints many articles that illustrate vividly just where many members of the increasingly radical bioethics movement would take us. Most recently, it published an article ...

Many academic bioethicists have financial ties to the very companies whose ethics they evaluate, but few policies govern how those ties are disclosed or managed to avoid conflicts of interest, a ...

Bioethics is a small field, but we punch above our weight when it comes to writing. Professional journal articles, reports, and policies are arguably our primary written products, since the main job ...