Although there have been concerns involving medical ethics since ancient times, bioethics is an invention of the late twentieth century. The first freestanding center devoted to bioethics was created in 1969. By the beginning of the twenty-first...

Distant Peoples and Future Generations Only recently have philosophers begun to discuss the question of whether we can meaningfully speak of distant peoples and future generations as having rights against us or of our having corresponding obligations...

Bioethics Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with practical ethical issues roughly at the intersection of morality, medicine, and the life sciences. Within philosophy, bioethics is one of several different areas of applied ethics,...

Bioethics is a broad subject connecting advances in biological and medical science with moral concerns. Medical ethics is one large part of bioethics but by no means the only part. Bioethics has grown as a discipline precisely as science and technology...

Meta-ethics Normative · Descriptive Consequentialism Deontology Virtue ethics Ethics of care Good and evil ·...

Judith Swazey, with Renee Fox, wrote the first sociological study of the Seattle dialysis program, The Courage to Fail. One of the many lessons I learned doing graduate work in the history of science is that it is difficult to determine precisely...

645 Culture, values and ethics of animal scientists. John Hodges*, European Association of Animal Production. Culture is defined as the shared worklview of a sub-set of humanity: race, nation, or professional group. In practice Culture means The way we do things around here....

Pope Benedict XVI told a visiting Cypriot Orthodox leader Saturday that he holds hope that the Catholic and Orthodox churches can be united, despite centuries of painful division.The churchmen also explored how the two sides could work together on social, moral and bioethical issues, including...

As advanced science plays a larger role in courtrooms across the country, judges who earned degrees in English or the humanities face the daunting task of making informed decisions about some very technical disputes. That's why judges from across the Southeast gathered Friday for a...