Bioethics and Culture: Understanding the Contemporary Crisis in Bioethics

Bioethics between Nature and Culture

Global Bioethics and Culture in a Pluralistic World: How does Culture influence Bioethics in Africa?

Bioethics principles and practice can be influenced by different cultural background. This is because the four globally accepted bioethics principles are often based on basic ethical codes such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice. Beneficence/nonmaleficence requires us to maximize possible benefits, while minimizing possible harms and consequently secure the well-being of other...

Bioethics Cardioteam Useful for Bedside Crisis Management

In Cardiology, the symbolism of the heart, the social assumption of heart disease, the worrying levels of morbidity and mortality and the frequency of urgency and emergency exercise an “etiopathogenic” influence. Beliefs of inattention to the person, of technical limitation as denial of attention and malpractice in new unwanted beginnings point out to scenarios made up by fragmented case manage...

Bioethics in Catholic Theology and Scientific Bioethics

Every creature is good and subject to the principle of solidarity that everyone has been blessed and gifted with life by God. Therefore, we cannot have one without the other, and no man exists without an animal. Over the last several decades, our world has been confronted with many ethical problems and ethics is being more and more sought after in spheres of human conduct and profession. Man ha...

Religion and bioethics: toward an expanded understanding.

Before asking what U.S. bioethics might learn from a more comprehensive and more nuanced understanding of Islamic religion, history, and culture, a prior question is, how should bioethics think about religion? Two sets of commonly held assumptions impede further progress and insight. The first involves what "religion" means and how one should study it. The second is a prominent philosophical vi...