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Bioethics NEWS - August 2004

She measured up to a historic role
Date: 26 Sep 2004
Excerpt: National Conference of Special Court Judges of the American Bar Association and a member of the ABA coordinating committee on AIDS and the bioethics and law ...
Source: Portland Maine Press Herald,

American Policy Center Protests US Move To Rejoin UNESCO
Date: 26 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Congress. UNESCO membership would undermine US sovereignty by forcing the US to adhere to the UN global policy on bioethics. UNESCO ...
Source: American Daily,

A British Bill Toys With Death
Date: 26 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Their worries were echoed by experts in bioethics, expressed in a letter published Sept. 7 in the Guardian newspaper. The letter ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Ethics always a concern
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...moral understanding. "Many (ethical guidelines) are based on natural law," said Prieur, who teaches bioethics at St. Peter's Seminary ...
Source: London Free Press,

Child drug abuse – at the hands of adults
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...of our children. Kelly Hollowell, JD, Ph.D., is a scientist, patent attorney and adjunct law professor of bioethics. She is also ...
Source: WorldNetDaily,

Moral Theologian Comments on US Catholic Hospitals Inducing ...
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: Fr. Lynch is consultant on bioethics for the Toronto archdiocese and is Dean of Studies and professor of moral theology at St. Augustine ...
Source: Lifesite,

Florida Failed to Defend the Life of Terri Schiavo
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...problem and that the juridical system is unable to protect Terri Schiavo's life," said Father Gonzalo Miranda, dean of the Faculty of Bioethics of Rome's ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Human Dignity in the Biotech Century
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: One is Ben Mitchell, who edits the journal Ethics and Medicine and advises the Southern Baptist Convention on bioethics, and then there is Dr. David Stevens ...
Source: Town Hall,

Coalition of Bioethics Groups Condemns Dutch Euthanasia for Kids ...
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- A coalition of bioethics groups is condemning the Dutch government for extending its euthanasia law to include children. ...
Source: LifeNews.com,

Brazil delays GM crops and cloning bill
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...for lawmakers to get to grips with, despite approval in March by the chamber of deputies, Brazil's lower house of parliament (see Brazil's quandary on bioethics ...
Source: SciDev.net,

Remedy lies in putting morals on the market
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...you care about other things too. Dirk Baltzly is senior lecturer in the school of philosophy and bioethics at Monash University.
Source: The Age,

Florida High Court Rules Against 'Terri's Law'
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: SHAPIRO : George Annas chairs the department of health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University's School of Public Health. ...
Source: NPR (audio),

Rosemary Roberts column: John, George, Bonesmen and Yale
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: Spin.''. There were speakers who discussed trust in the corporate world, trust in government, trust in bioethics, trust in the media. ...
Source: Greensboro News Record,

Adding women's voices to bioethics debates
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: Kathryn Hinsch's fascination with bioethics was sparked on weekly runs around Seattle's Green Lake in the mid-'90s. She went there ...
Source: Seattle Times,

State Supreme Court rejects 'Terri's Law'
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...that that right is best represented by a guardian or proxy who is representing what the patient would want," said Ray Moseley, professor of bioethics, law and ...
Source: Tallahassee Democrat,

State Supreme Court rejects 'Terri's Law'
Date: Sep 24, 2004
Excerpt: ...that that right is best represented by a guardian or proxy who is representing what the patient would want," said Ray Moseley, professor of bioethics, law and ...
Source: Tallahassee.com,

Judge's remarks offer abortion foes hope
Date: Sep 23, 2004
Excerpt: Dorinda Bordlee, a lawyer in the New Orleans office of the Americans United for Life law firm, who specializes in bioethics or human life issues, including ...
Source: WBRZ,

East Providence High School inducts six into hall of fame
Date: Sep 23, 2004
Excerpt: ...named in his honor. In retirement, he is active in The Wiley Center, East Bay CASSP and the bioethics committee at Bradley Hospital.
Source: Providence Journal (subscription),

Bioethics Federation Urges Europe to Ban Practice of Euthanasia on ...
Date: Sep 23, 2004
Excerpt: 23, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A group representing 35 centers and institutes of bioethics around the world has condemned the extension of euthanasia to children and ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Florida High Court Rules Against 'Terri's Law'
Date: Sep 23, 2004
Excerpt: ...not definitively resolved. And Mandy intersect more people George Annas chairs the Department of Health slob bioethics. And human ...
Source: NPR (audio),

Conflict of Interest in Research
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: National Institutes of Health, COINS is being led by Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, the newly endowed Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at ...
Source: Medical News Today,

Conflict of Interest in Research Is the Focus of New Study
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: National Institutes of Health, COINS is being led by Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, the newly endowed Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at ...
Source: Newswise (press release)

spare parts for life
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ..."The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed," said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of a recent ...
Source: Lexington Herald Leader,

Happy seniors sought to promote drug card
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Robert Binstock, a professor of bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was shocked when he heard about the e-mail. ...
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer,

spare parts for life
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ..."The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed," said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of a recent ...
Source: Kentucky.com,

Overdue in Michigan: An apology for forced sterilization
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: But a recent conference we held on disability perspectives on bioethics, alerted me to an issue that deserves much more public discussion. ...
Source: City Pulse,

Regional notes
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: On Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, will speak. Following ...
Source: iBerkshires.com,

MCLA appoints nine new faculty
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: He specializes in Rawls, Kant, contemporary issues in ethics, bioethics, social and political philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes in English and American ...
Source: iBerkshires.com,

Kendle International Appoints Country Managers to Lead Operations ...
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: She is a member of the Romanian Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the Advisory Board of the Romanian Medical Journal of Bioethics. ...
Source: Yahoo News (press release)

Surgeons seek go-ahead to perform first face transplant
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: In an article in the American Journal of Bioethics on 17 September, the team argues that science is far enough advanced to diminish the risks posed by the ...
Source: Nature.com,

To: National Desk
Date: 23 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...that the public and members of Congress see the 'faces' that represent embryonic stem-cell research," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release),

Pillars of bioresearch Medicine's latest step forward reflects the ...
Date: Sep 22, 2004
Excerpt: ...the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders, the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research and the National Bioethics Advisory Committee ...
Source: OregonLive.com,

A Stem Cell Controversy Comes to California
Date: Sep 21, 2004
Excerpt: In an online essay, Daniel McConchie and Linda K. Bevington of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, a Christian research and policy institute, wrote ...
Source: Independent News Desk

Poll: Voters don't like mixing of politics, science
Date: Sep 21, 2004
Excerpt: ...whether she voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and whether she agreed with his policies when she was interviewed for a position on a government panel on bioethics ...
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel,

Poll: Voters don't like mixing of politics, science
Date: Sep 21, 2004
Excerpt: ...whether she voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and whether she agreed with his policies when she was interviewed for a position on a government panel on bioethics ...
Source: Times Record News,

Poll: Voters don't like mixing of politics, science
Date: Sep 21, 2004
Excerpt: ...whether she voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and whether she agreed with his policies when she was interviewed for a position on a government panel on bioethics ...
Source: Record-Searchlight (subscription),

Poll: Voters don't like mixing of politics, science
Date: Sep 21, 2004
Excerpt: ...whether she voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and whether she agreed with his policies when she was interviewed for a position on a government panel on bioethics ...
Source: Scripps Howard News Service

ELECTION SPECIAL 1: The real issues facing Australia
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: This is only partly true. Fundamentally, it should be recognised that economics is a moral science. It is as much a moral science as bioethics. ...
Source: Australia News Weekly,

ELECTION SPECIAL 3: Voters must challenge candidates on moral ...
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Overall on family and bioethics issues the Coalition has a better track record and better prospects for improvement than Labor. ...
Source: Australia News Weekly,

Doublespeak: False Term "Pre-embryo" Re-emerges
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: That term is "pre-embryo," which denotes a "false phase of human development," said Dr. Claudia Navarini, professor in the School of Bioethics at the Regina ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Patients lack dopamine
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...from that of Alzhei- mer's," added Dr. Robert Klitzman, associate professor of clinical psychiatry and co-director of the center for bioethics at Columbia ...
Source: New York Newsday,

Patients lack dopamine
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...from that of Alzhei- mer's," added Dr. Robert Klitzman, associate professor of clinical psychiatry and co-director of the center for bioethics at Columbia ...
Source: Newsday,

Tourism Institute tracks visitors and their habits
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Dec. 6 - "Ethics and Errors in Rural Health Care," UM associate professor Ann Cook, director, National Rural Bioethics Project.
Source: The Missoulian,

Face transplants: surgeons ready
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: In Friday's American Journal of Bioethics, the physicians say an ideal candidate would be someone with a severely disfigured face, such as the victim of a burn ...
Source: Health24,

Doctors have no candidate for face transplant
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...done. We submit that that time is now," the team wrote in an article published Friday in The American Journal of Bioethics. The ...
Source: Pravda,

Meanwhile - Body and soul: A partnership re-evaluated
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: The president's Council on Bioethics has expressed this with considerable eloquence in its report "Being Human": "We have both corporeal and noncorporeal ...
Source: International Herald Tribune,

Face-off: Docs set for face transplant
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: We submit that that time is now," the researchers wrote in an article scheduled for publication on Friday in The American Journal of Bioethics . ...
Source: Times of India,

Treatment of Discarded Embryos in Dispute
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ..."Nothing else needs to be added; that's it.". Carrie Gordon Earll, senior analyst for bioethics at Focus on the Family, agreed. "We ...
Source: Family News In Focus,

The impact of race in healthcare
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: KALAMAZOO--A bioethics scholar will address the impact that race has had in the administering of health care in a free presentation at 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. ...
Source: WMU News,

A home for frozen embryos
Date: 21 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Someone can give you an embryo," says George Annas, chair of the department of health, law, bioethics, and human rights at the Boston University School of ...
Source: U.S. News & World Report (subscription),

Military doctors reminded of wartime roles
Date: Sep 20, 2004
Excerpt: Steven H. Miles, MD, of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics, provides a comprehensive look in The Lancet at some of the reported offenses ...
Source: American Medical News

Panelists focus on marriage history, ideals
Date: Sep 20, 2004
Excerpt: Abraham, with Samuel Gorovitz, a philosophy professor at SU, Deidre Neiland, a faculty member from the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the State ...
Source: The Daily Orange (subscription),

Expert: Today's insurance options are quite absurd
Date: Sep 20, 2004
Excerpt: The absurdity of this system is not lost on Dr. Steven Miles, professor of medicine and geriatrics at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. ...
Source: Charlotte Observer (subscription),

Today’s scientists have the skills and experience to transplant ...
Date: Sep 19, 2004
Excerpt: 17 article appearing in the American Journal of Bioethics, On the Ethics of Facial Transplantation Research.� The article is accompanied by critiques from ...
Source: News-Medical.net,

Donor wishes must prevail: research Call for change to way doctors ...
Date: Sep 19, 2004
Excerpt: The researchers, master of bioethics and health-law student Jennifer Ngahooro and Prof Grant Gillett, of the university-based Otago Bioethics Centre, highlight ...
Source: Otago Daily Times,

Conference addresses moral trust
Date: Sep 19, 2004
Excerpt: Other conference events included workshops, seminars and lectures focused on issues including bioethics, economics and business. ...
Source: Yale Daily News

Stem-cell science: Mirage or shining city?
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...it was going to be the way to fix everything," says Josephine Johnston, a bioethicist at the Hastings Center, a nonprofit bioethics research institute in ...
Source: USA Today

Three more choices
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: As a qualified nurse with degrees in community health, philosophy and bioethics, Ms Willsher said she had experienced the nationwide shortage of health and ...
Source: Warrnambool Standard,

Wednesday September 15, 2004
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Since the Second World War, the eugenics movement has been evolved by professional ethicists into the pseudo-science of bioethics. ...
Source: Lifesite,

Catholic Hospitals Inducing Labour and Killing Handicapped ...
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Since the Second World War, the eugenics movement has been evolved by professional ethicists into the pseudo-science of bioethics. ...
Source: Lifesite,

Where oh where has civility gone?
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...cell research. As appointed members of the President's Council on Bioethics, they are concerned with life and death issues. One ...
Source: Littleton Independent,

CHILDREN'S EUTHANASIA: BIOETHICS CENTRES, EU INTERVENE
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...babies "with the complicity of doctors and justice representatives" was expressed by the International Federation of personalist bioethics, which represents 35 ...
Source: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia,

BREAKPOINT: Why Lincoln matters: Reason, religion and public ...
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...fatuous. Many opponents, like Dr. Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, are not moved by religion. Their ...
Source: Florida Baptist Witness,

Politics put under the microscope
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Elizabeth Blackburn's dismissal from George Bush's Council on Bioethics has become a cause celebre in the US. Deborah Smith reports. ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (subscription),

MCLA welcomes nine new faculty
Date: 16 Sep 2004
Excerpt: He specializes in Rawls, Kant, contemporary issues in Ethics, bioethics, social and political philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes in English and American ...
Source: iBerkshires.com,

FDA experts urge warning on drugs for depression
Date: Sep 15, 2004
Excerpt: ...there be more suicides, fewer suicides or the same number of suicides in children?" panel member Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle,

Advisers urge strong warning on antidepressants for children
Date: Sep 15, 2004
Excerpt: ...there be more suicides, fewer suicides or the same number of suicides in children?'' panel member Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the ...
Source: San Jose Mercury News (subscription),

FDA panel's advice cites youth suicide risk
Date: Sep 15, 2004
Excerpt: ...there be more suicides, fewer suicides or the same number of suicides in children?" panel member Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the ...
Source: Pioneer Press (subscription),

German Panel Splits on Cloning Issue
Date: Sep 14, 2004
Excerpt: BERLIN--The German Bioethics Council has recommended that Germany keep its moratorium on all forms of human cloning--for now. On ...
Source: Science Magazine (subscription)

Ensuring voting rights for the mentally ill
Date: Sep 14, 2004
Excerpt: The lead author of the JAMA study is my colleague Dr. Jason Karlawish, a specialist in bioethics and geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of ...
Source: MSNBC

Gene consultation with Maori only 'tokenism'
Date: Sep 14, 2004
Excerpt: Paul Reynolds, a postdoctoral fellow at the Auckland University-based institute Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, said the Government-appointed Bioethics Council heard ...
Source: New Zealand Herald,

New IU Research Center to Develop Tests For Cancer, Heart Disease
Date: Sep 14, 2004
Excerpt: Children’s Health Services Research, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Division of Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics and the ...
Source: Inside INdiana Business (press release),

Scientists make replacement parts for organs
Date: Sep 14, 2004
Excerpt: ...''The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed,'' said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of a recent ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription),

German Panel Splits on Cloning Issue
Date: 14 Sep 2004
Excerpt: BERLIN--The German Bioethics Council has recommended that Germany keep its moratorium on all forms of human cloning--for now. On ...
Source: Science Magazine (subscription)

Ensuring voting rights for the mentally ill
Date: 14 Sep 2004
Excerpt: The lead author of the JAMA study is my colleague Dr. Jason Karlawish, a specialist in bioethics and geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of ...
Source: MSNBC

Gene consultation with Maori only 'tokenism'
Date: 14 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Paul Reynolds, a postdoctoral fellow at the Auckland University-based institute Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, said the Government-appointed Bioethics Council heard ...
Source: New Zealand Herald,

New IU Research Center to Develop Tests For Cancer, Heart Disease
Date: 14 Sep 2004
Excerpt: Children’s Health Services Research, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Division of Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics and the ...
Source: Inside INdiana Business (press release),

Scientists make replacement parts for organs
Date: 14 Sep 2004
Excerpt: ...''The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed,'' said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of a recent ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription),

Line Blurring Between Dutch and Nazi Euthanasia
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: Dr. Claudia Navarini, professor of the School of Bioethics of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, made that assessment in the wake of the August ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Kerry Campaign Releases Bush-Cheney Ad Fact Check 'Healthcare ...
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: In addition, former Bush speechwriter David Frum; Leon Kass, MD Chairman President's Council on Bioethics; Richard Perle, and Samuel Thernstrom was previously ...
Source: U.S. Newswire (press release),

Center Focuses on Improved Disease Diagnostics
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: Children's Health Services Research, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Division of Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics and the ...
Source: AScribe

Germany's Ethics Council Rejects Cloning
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: ...for research policy of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group, Katharina Reiche, and the Libreal FDP's expert on bioethics, Ulrike Flach ...
Source: Deutsche Welle,

Boom times for baby factories
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: ...fate of the embryos which are created, culled and destroyed in the process," says Michael Cook, editor of BioEdge, an independent email newsletter on bioethics ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (subscription),

New members of the Human Genetics Commission appointed, UK
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: Professor Harris, philosopher, is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law at the University of Manchester and a previous member of HGC. ...
Source: Medical News Today,

College briefs
Date: Sep 13, 2004
Excerpt: Peter Lawler, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and executive editor of the quarterly journal Perspectives on Political Science, will discuss ...
Source: AL.com,

Now They Want to Euthanize Children
Date: Sep 12, 2004
Excerpt: Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. ...
Source: The Weekly Standard (subscription),

Veil of secrecy to lift on drug tests
Date: Sep 12, 2004
Excerpt: Drug companies have an ethical obligation to report all their findings, says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Fertility clinics face tough call
Date: Sep 12, 2004
Excerpt: ...a person in the eyes of the law?--has not been the subject of an explicit legal ruling in the US, said John Robertson, a professor of law and bioethics at the ...
Source: Chicago Tribune (subscription),

Boom times for baby factories
Date: 13-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...fate of the embryos which are created, culled and destroyed in the process," says Michael Cook, editor of BioEdge, an independent email newsletter on bioethics ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (subscription),

Veil of secrecy to lift on drug tests
Date: 13-Sep-04
Excerpt: Drug companies have an ethical obligation to report all their findings, says Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Now They Want to Euthanize Children
Date: 13-Sep-04
Excerpt: Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. ...
Source: The Weekly Standard (subscription),

College briefs
Date: 13-Sep-04
Excerpt: Peter Lawler, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and executive editor of the quarterly journal Perspectives on Political Science, will discuss ...
Source: AL.com,

New members of the Human Genetics Commission appointed, UK
Date: 13-Sep-04
Excerpt: Professor Harris, philosopher, is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law at the University of Manchester and a previous member of HGC. ...
Source: Medical News Today,

Fertility clinics face tough call
Date: 12-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...a person in the eyes of the law?--has not been the subject of an explicit legal ruling in the US, said John Robertson, a professor of law and bioethics at the ...
Source: Chicago Tribune (subscription),

Bioethics lecture on Mobile campus open to public
Date: 11-Sep-04
Excerpt: A Sept. 23 lecture at the Baptist-affiliated University of Mobile by a member of the President's Council on Bioethics is open to the public. ...
Source: Tuscaloosa News (subscription),

Embryo-centrism and Other Sins
Date: 11-Sep-04
Excerpt: AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS of complaining that President Bush's Council on Bioethics has been a reactionary, jaundiced, and unscientific influence upon American ...
Source: The Weekly Standard (subscription),

Jerry Kensok letter: Liffrig warns about the slippery slope
Date: 11-Sep-04
Excerpt: Mike Liffrig is telling the truth when he sounds the alarm about Dorgan's desire to lead us further down the bioethics slippery slope.
Source: In-Forum (subscription),

Bioethics lecture on Mobile campus open to public
Date: 11-Sep-04
Excerpt: MOBILE, Ala. - A Sept. 23 lecture at the Baptist-affiliated University of Mobile by a member of the President's Council on Bioethics is open to the public. ...
Source: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer,

Your vote: A terrible thing
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...and representatives. Kelly Hollowell, JD, Ph.D., is a scientist, patent attorney and adjunct law professor of bioethics. She is ...
Source: WorldNetDaily,

Mississippi briefs
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: Hensley's seminar is part of the department of biology's Fall Seminar Series and is titled; "Bioethics: Stem Cell Research." The seminar is free and open to ...
Source: Jackson Clarion Ledger,

Proposed Sale of Home Defibrillators Concerns Some
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: I will predict, ad campaigns that are likely to be more frightening than they are realistic," Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the ...
Source: drkoop.com

Proposed Sale of Home Defibrillators Concerns Some
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: I will predict, ad campaigns that are likely to be more frightening than they are realistic," Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the ...
Source: HealthCentral.com

Pro-life groups mount stem cell education efforts
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: Louis Center for Bioethics and Culture, the Missouri Catholic Conference, Missouri Right to Life and the archdiocesan Pro-Life Committee. ...
Source: St.Louis Review,

New Members of the Human Genetics Commission Appointed
Date: 10-Sep-04
Excerpt: Professor Harris, philosopher, is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law at the University of Manchester and a previous member of HGC. ...
Source: The Scotsman,

Hollywood interns learn Cali-fornication
Date: 9-Sep-04
Excerpt: Geographic have expressed joint interest in one of Payne's scripts about "the story of a person who blew the lid on the Soviet bioethics program, where they ...
Source: Yale Daily News

STEM CELLS: MONSIGNOR SGRECCIA CALLS TRANSPLANT A SUCCESS
Date: 7-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...success and confirms the Vatican's line with regards to encouraging research", said Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, director of the Vatican's Bioethics department at ...
Source: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia,

Stem cell experts, foes wage high-stakes fight
Date: 7-Sep-04
Excerpt: Alfred Cioffi, a Miami-based priest with an advanced degree in bioethics, there is a simple reason why no medical breakthrough could justify research on stem ...
Source: Akron Beacon Journal (subscription),

Malaria Costs the African Continent $12b Per Annum
Date: 7-Sep-04
Excerpt: We have mounted short term training in such areas as bioethics, good clinical practice (GCP), good laboratory practice (GLP), design and methodology in ...
Source: AllAfrica.com,

Bioengineers work to renew human parts
Date: 6-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...“The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed,� said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of the ...
Source: Kansas City Star (subscription),

Slippery Slope of Euthanasia for Children
Date: 6-Sep-04
Excerpt: Father Miranda, dean of the School of Bioethics of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, represented the Catholic Church on UNESCO's International ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Bioethics Council Report Whitewashes Maori Concern
Date: 5-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...(Note: This release was originally posted under a BioEthics Council byline, Scoop apologises for this error.). The 'Human Genes In ...
Source: Scoop.co.nz (press release),

Bioethics Cl Report Whitewashes Maori Concerns
Date: 5-Sep-04
Excerpt: The 'Human Genes In Other Organisms Report' released by the Bioethics Council "reads more like an advertisement for the biotechnology industry and mad ...
Source: Scoop.co.nz (press release),

Case gets grant to study genetic issues
Date: 4-Sep-04
Excerpt: ..."It's very exciting," said Eric Juengst, director of Case's center and an associate professor of bioethics. "It's a first for the field. ...
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (subscription),

Is the abortion the argument over?
Date: 4-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...concession of defeat on abortion. Rather, Spuc is widening its brief to include euthanasia and bioethics issues. She has been horrified ...
Source: Stuff.co.nz,

Seven Seacoast students win Harvard Prize Book Award
Date: 4-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...of Portsmouth High School, daughter of Deirdre and Mike Barrett of Portsmouth and Tony Foley of Manchester, recently completed the medical bioethics course at ...
Source: Portsmouth Herald,

Bookmakers divine Pope's signals
Date: 4-Sep-04
Excerpt: English lessons. Also important are such fairly new issues as relationships with Islam, bioethics and global economics. The next ...
Source: New York Daily News,

GOP tent: How big is too big?
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...an unfaithful spouse.". Kelly Hollowell, JD, Ph.D., is a scientist, patent attorney and adjunct law professor of bioethics. She is ...
Source: WorldNetDaily,

Why Lincoln Matters
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...fatuous. Many opponents, like Dr. Leon Kass, chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, are not moved by religion. Their ...
Source: Town Hall,

Ending the Drug War against the Weak
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...lawyers. And genetic susceptibility defenses have precedent, according to a report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. "Currently ...
Source: Betterhumans,

Heart surgeons compare their patient death rates
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: Justin Oakley, the director of Monash University's Centre for Human Bioethics, said patients could not make an informed decision about whether to go ahead with ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (subscription),

Surgeons to declare death rates
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: Justin Oakley, the director of Monash University's Centre for Human Bioethics, said patients could not make an informed decision about whether to go ahead with ...
Source: The Age,

Sweet Surrender
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: Or join a bioethics committee at a nearby hospital. So Christian women need to be more alert to what's happening culturally? Oh my goodness, yes. ...
Source: Christianity Today Magazine

UNESCO Committee Debates Therapeutic Human Cloning
Date: 3-Sep-04
Excerpt: Zenit.org).- Delegations of several countries expressed their concern over UNESCO's plan to write a Declaration on Universal Norms of Bioethics which, among ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Non-embryonic stem cells: Healing for broken bodies
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...stem cell research, said Eric Cohen, a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: ChristianTimes.com

Most US IVF Clinics Discard Unused Embryos
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: Arthur Caplan, chair of the Department of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and ...
Source: Medical News Today,

Federal judge in NY strikes down partial birth abortion ban
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: Carrie Gordon Earll, bioethics policy analyst for Focus on the Family, said Casey’s decision “is simply the bitter fruit of Roe v. Wade — and we can ...
Source: ChristianTimes.com

Cloning and stem cell research Bill: PAP MPs to vote freely
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: He reminded the House that the Cabinet, in May 2002, accepted recommendations by the Bioethics Advisory Committee which included a complete ban on any attempt ...
Source: Straits Times,

New IU Building Will Be Part of BioCrossroads Initiative
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: Researchers working for the IU Center for Bioethics, Children's Health Services and other divisions will be in the new building when it opens in 2006. ...
Source: WISH,

GE FREE ACTION ROADSHOW Information
Date: 2-Sep-04
Excerpt: The recently published report by the Bioethics Council shows once again that no government agency will effectively stop the release of GE organisms into the ...
Source: Scoop.co.nz (press release),

Disabled woman's case heard before Florida's highest court
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...there. It's just respiration and metabolism," said Allan Meisel, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Pittsburgh. ...
Source: Baltimore Sun,

Florida Justices Start Review of Right-to-Die Case
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...there. It's just respiration and metabolism," said Allan Meisel, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Pittsburgh. ...
Source: Los Angeles Times (subscription),

"Terri's Law" raises questions in Florida court
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...there. It's just respiration and metabolism," said Allan Meisel, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Pittsburgh. ...
Source: Seattle Times,

More women and adolescents needed in HIV vaccine clinical trials
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: ...to be more inclusive, so the benefits of research are more fairly distributed," said Dr Ruth Macklin, co-Chair of the meeting and a bioethics professor at the ...
Source: News-Medical.net,

IU Breaks Ground on Medical Information Sciences Building
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: Children’s Health Services Research, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Division of Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics and the ...
Source: Inside INdiana Business (press release),

Doctor’s studies aids London to go for gold
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: Dr Miah, who is qualified to PhD level in bioethics and is a member of the International Association of Bioethics and the British Philosophy of Sport ...
Source: ic Ayrshire.co.uk,

NHGRI Launches Centers for Excellence In Ethical, Legal and Social ...
Date: 1-Sep-04
Excerpt: Each of the new centers will assemble a team of experts in several disciplines, such as bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, clinical research ...
Source: National Institutes of Health (press release)

Experts call for more women and youth participation in AIDS ...
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...exclusion or low participation of women and adolescents in HIV vaccine clinical trials,� Ruth Macklin, co-Chair of the meeting and a bioethics professor at ...
Source: UN News Centre

Daily HIV/Aids Report
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...frequent exclusion or low participation of women and adolescents in HIV vaccine clinical trials," Dr. Ruth Macklin, meeting co-chair and bioethics professor at ...
Source: AllAfrica.com,

Advocates call for greater funding for HIV vaccine research
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...from the frequent exclusion or low participation of women and adolescents in HIV vaccine clinical trials," said Ruth Macklin, a professor of bioethics at New ...
Source: The Advocate

President Bush's bioethics panel has little influence
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: Bush explained that the new President's Council on Bioethics would help ''discuss and evaluate" the various developments in laboratories worldwide, and ...
Source: Boston Globe,

President Bush's bioethics panel has little influence
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: Bush explained that the new President's Council on Bioethics would help ''discuss and evaluate" the various developments in laboratories worldwide, and ...
Source: Boston.com,

more women, teens in HIV tests
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: Clinical trial enrollment needs to be more inclusive, so the benefits of research are more fairly distributed, said Dr. Ruth Macklin, a bioethics professor at ...
Source: Big News Network.com,

NHGRI launches Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and ...
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: Each of the new centers will assemble a team of experts in several disciplines, such as bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, clinical research ...
Source: Medical News Today,

Scientific, Medical and Policy Experts Comment on Anticipated Stem ...
Date: 31-Aug-04
Excerpt: In dismissing Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn from the President's Council on Bioethics, the administration attempted to block out objective advice from scientific ...
Source: PR Newswire (press release)

Biotechnology puts life in hand
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: ..."The boundaries of humanity are going to be changed," said Lori Andrews, an authority on bioethics at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and author of a recent ...
Source: The University of Hawaii Kaleo,

Mexican Cardinal Says those who Promote Abortion cannot be ...
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...as president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, he has addressed the misconceptions that Christian ethics is in accord with modern bioethics. ...
Source: Lifesite,

Terri Schiavo case to be debated tonight at FSU
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...of the International Task Force for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; Dr. James Walter, director of Loyola Marymount University's bioethics institute; Dr ...
Source: Tallahassee Democrat,

Ruling awaited on aborting fetuses with birth defects
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: In a friend of the court brief, the Human Rights, Gender and Bioethics Institute, a health rights group based in Brasilia, the capital, contends that ...
Source: Miami Herald (subscription),

Why Does New Jersey Senator Want California to Fund Human Cloning?
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. ...
Source: LifeNews.com,

STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: She also advises a fledgling Seattle think tank, the Women's Bioethics Project. Vazquez said she doesn't miss the 60-hour work weeks. ...
Source: Seattle Times,

Xenotransplantation’ Treated With Concern
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: The invitation to public consultation about ‘Animal to Human Transplants’ by the Bioethics Council is greeted with significant concern from tangata whenua ...
Source: Scoop.co.nz (press release),

Republicans and the Relics of Barbarism
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: Touchstone magazine. William L. Saunders is director of the Center for Bioethics and Human Life at the Family Research Council.
Source: National Review Online

Should the state make life-or-death medical decisions?
Date: 30-Aug-04
Excerpt: William Saunders, director of the Center for Human Life and Bioethics at the Family Research Council in Washington, takes a different view. ...
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Concerns about solicitations
Date: 29-Aug-04
Excerpt: Federal law explicitly allows for this option, although some state laws have placed limits on it, said Mark Fox, associate director of the bioethics center at ...
Source: Newsday,

People get say on animal parts
Date: 29-Aug-04
Excerpt: The Bioethics Council, fresh from a national "dialogue" about putting human genes into animals, now wants the public's views on transplants in the opposite ...
Source: New Zealand Herald,

The Debate Over Proposition 71
Date: 29-Aug-04
Excerpt: Tina Stevens, Ph.D., of San Francisco State University's History Department, is the author of "Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics" (Johns ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle,

A fertile niche in Tampa
Date: 27-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...$4 billion per year, serving one in six infertile couples in the United States," according to a report issued in March by President Bush's Council on Bioethics ...
Source: MSNBC

DNA May Soon Be in Play
Date: 27-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...for the [athlete] and not his or her chemist," said Leon Kass, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and head of the President's Council on Bioethics. ...
Source: Los Angeles Times (subscription),

Gene transfer given support Bioethics Council delivers report
Date: 27-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...generally support the transfer of human genes to other organisms to save human lives or reduce or prevent suffering, according to the Bioethics Council. ...
Source: Otago Daily Times,

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Explained (Part 1)
Date: 27-Aug-04
Excerpt: 27, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Thirty bioethicists and health care experts gathered recently at a colloquium hosted by the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute to ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Bioethics Council public dialogue valuable
Date: 25-Aug-04
Excerpt: Environment Minister Marian Hobbs has received Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council's first major report – the Use of Human Genes in Other Organisms at a ...
Source: Scoop.co.nz (press release),

Brazilian high court may permit abortion if no survival chances
Date: 25-Aug-04
Excerpt: In a friend of the court brief, the Human Rights, Gender and Bioethics Institute, a health rights group based in Brasilia, the capital, contends that current ...
Source: Kansas City Star (subscription),

Pinoy Kasi : Philosophy and animal welfare
Date: 25-Aug-04
Excerpt: The lecture was part of a new program on bioethics established by the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and College of Medicine. ...
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer,

Publicity campaigns seeking organ donations raise ethics questions
Date: 24-Aug-04
Excerpt: Federal law explicitly allows for this option, although some state laws have placed limits on it, said Mark Fox, associate director of the bioethics center at ...
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel,

Effect of prebiotic and probiotic foods on health
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...patients who have undergone gastroscopy < after prior informed permission being requested and granted and prior authorisation of the Committee of Bioethics. ...
Source: News-Medical.net,

Hippocratic Oath AWOL at Military Prisons
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...there was a widespread failure to provide basic clinical facilities, screening and records," said Miles, a professor at the university's Center for Bioethics. ...
Source: Antiwar.com,

RIGHTS-US: Hippocratic Oath AWOL at Military Prisons
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...there was a widespread failure to provide basic clinical facilities, screening and records,? said Miles, a professor at the university's Centre for Bioethics ...
Source: Inter Press Service (subscription),

Scientists Breed a Tougher Mouse
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...together in a product for human beings, you can imagine the market that would open up," said Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the Center for Bioethics at the ...
Source: Wired News

UNM hires Caldera's wife
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: Caldera will also be teaching a bioethics class at the UNM School of Law. ... Bioethics refers to ethics related to biology and medicine. ...
Source: Daily Lobo (subscription),

GM Mosquito Offers Hope in Fight Against Malaria
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: David Magnus, who directs the Bioethics Center at Stanford University, says trying to get thousands of people to sign consent forms won't work, but community ...
Source: NPR (audio)

Publicity campaigns seeking organ donations raise ethics questions
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: Federal law explicitly allows for this option, although some state laws have placed limits on it, said Mark Fox, associate director of the bioethics center at ...
Source: Scripps Howard News Service

Hippocratic Oath a Casualty of War
Date: 23-Aug-04
Excerpt: Great War on Terrorism could well be at risk. Michael Cook is the editor of BioEdge, an international bioethics email newsletter.
Source: Common Dreams

Fear follows plan to build more deadly-disease labs
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ..."The question is whether to do things that carry risk," said Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle,

We are in a quandary over cloning debate ?
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...asserts, "difficult to control". Francesco D’Agostino, head of Italy’s national bioethics committee, agrees. Not only that, but ...
Source: The Scotsman,

Facts on Stem Cells
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...clear. Ruth R. Faden, Wagley professor of biomedical ethics at Johns Hopkins University, directs its Berman Bioethics Institute. John ...
Source: Washington Post,

Sant'Egidio Plans Interreligious Meeting in Milan
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...discussions which will give voice to the 350 participants who will focus on topics such as democracy; AIDS; dialogue between civilizations; bioethics; and the ...
Source: Zenit News Agency,

Effect of prebiotic and probiotic foods on health
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...patients who have undergone gastroscopy – after prior informed permission being requested and granted and prior authorisation of the Committee of Bioethics. ...
Source: News-Medical.net,

Poll: Doctors Won't Always Follow Living Will, Euthanasia a ...
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...views. Alan Meisel, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Pittsburgh, says the findings come as little surprise. ...
Source: LifeNews.com,

Publicity campaigns seeking organ donations raise ethics questions
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: Federal law explicitly allows for this option, although some state laws have placed limits on it, said Mark Fox, associate director of the bioethics center at ...
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

BIOETHICS & CREATIVITY
Date: 22-Aug-04
Excerpt: The gods and goddesses of Olympus are back. Stronger, faster and sleeker, they're breaking records in stadiums and swimming pools ...
Source: San Francisco Chronicle,

Botswana author mixes entertainment with ethics
Date: 21-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...to write full-time, his work as a medical lawyer has involved regulating genetic experiments and sitting on an international bioethics commission for UNESCO. ...
Source: Stuff.co.nz,

Abu Ghraib Probe Points to Top Brass
Date: 21-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...with interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings," Steven H. Miles of the Center for Bioethics at the ...
Source: Collective Bellaciao,

Thinking on abortion, fetus guides most groups' positions
Date: 21-Aug-04
Excerpt: Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a theologian and neuroscientist, and director of education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center. ...
Source: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

This information has been provided by the State Statistics ...
Date: 21-Aug-04
Excerpt: The 11th session of UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee (IBC) will take place August 23 and 24 at UNESCO Headquarters . ...
Source: Azer Tag,

[PCUSANEWS] Notes about people
Date: 20-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...of the World Council of Churches, he helped organize a seminal WCC-sponsored world conference of scientists and theologians on the subject of bioethics in 1979 ...
Source: Worldwide Faith News (press release)

Effect of prebiotic and probiotic foods on health
Date: 20-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...patients who have undergone gastroscopy – after prior informed permission being requested and granted and prior authorisation of the Committee of Bioethics. ...
Source: Basque Research.com

Botswana Author Mixes Entertainment with Ethics
Date: 20-Aug-04
Excerpt: ...to write full-time, his work as a medical lawyer has involved regulating genetic experiments and sitting on an international bioethics commission for UNESCO, a ...
Source: Reuters

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Bioethics from Wikipedia


Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help or harm organisms capable of feeling fear and pain.

Bioethics involves many public policy questions that are often politicized- used to mobilize political constituencies. For this reason, some biologists and others involved in the development of technology have come to see any mention of "bioethics" as an attempt to derail their work and react to it as such, regardless of the true intent. Transhumanist biologists in particular can be prone to this misunderstanding, as they see their work as inherently ethical, and attacks on it as misguided.

Issues

Bioethics issues include:
  • Abortion, reproductive rights
  • Artificial insemination
  • Artificial life
  • Biopiracy
  • Circumcision
  • Confidentiality of medical records and their abuse in interrogation of prisoners
  • Contraception
  • Cloning
  • Cryogenics
  • Direct mind-computer interface
  • Donating one's sperm or eggs
  • Donated organs when bought illegally (transplant trade)
  • Eugenics
  • Fair allocation of donated organs, class and race biases
  • Drug pricing, HIV/AIDs drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Genetic engineering, genetically modified food crops
  • Genomics
  • Homosexuality
  • Human cloning
  • Medical torture
  • Non-human animal cloning
  • Immortality
  • Treating infertility
  • Obligations of the individual, corporate employer, local, sub-national or national state and global community to provide health care and/or health insurance.
  • Primate rights under law
  • Stem cell cloning
  • Suicide, assisted suicide and human euthanasia
  • Non-human animal euthanasia
  • Pain management
  • Parthenogenesis
  • Population control
  • Recreational drug use
  • Reprogenetics
  • Scientific ignorance
  • Selling one's own blood or blood plasma
  • Spiritual drug use
  • Transhumanism
  • Transexuality
  • When to use, and when to withhold, life-support
  • When to use, and when to withhold, artificial hydration and artificial nutrition
  • Use of surrogate mothers
  • Use of nanotechnology as medical treatment
  • Use of artificial wombs
  • Treating non-human animals
  • Medical research on non-human animals
      Bioethicists focus on using philosophy to help analyze said concerns, though bioethics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary.

      Religious bioethicists have developed rules and guidelines on how to deal with these issues from within the viewpoint of their respective faiths. Some secular bioethicists are critical of the fact that these are usually religious scholars without an academic degree or training in disciplines that pertain to the issues, such as philosophy (wherein the study of ethics is usually found), biology or medicine.

      Most religious bioethicists are Jewish or Christian scholars. However a small number of religious scholars from other religions have recently become involved in this field as well. Islamic clerics have begun to write on this topic. Muslim bioethicists include Abdulaziz Sachedina, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. There has been some criticism by liberal Muslims that only the more religiously conservative voices in Islam are being heard on this issue. Buddhist bioethicists have focused much of their concern on organ transplantation.



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