Bioethics Authorship in Context: How Trends in Biomedicine Challenge Bioethics

Bioethics authorship in context: how trends in biomedicine challenge bioethics.

Criteria for authorship in bioethics.

Multiple authorship is becoming increasingly common in bioethics research. There are well-established criteria for authorship in empirical bioethics research but not for conceptual research. It is important to develop criteria for authorship in conceptual publications to prevent undeserved authorship and uphold standards of fairness and accountability. This article explores the issue of multipl...

Legal trends in bioethics.

Directives given in advance of need and substituted consent cases include: the New York trial court that denied the request of a patient's son for an order revoking the health care proxy his mother had given to his sister, the tape-recorded telephone conversation between the son and his mother was ruled to be insufficient evidence of the mother's desire to revoke the proxy, the mother was not ...

Current Bioethics Trends in Canada

Canadian bioethicists have long enjoyed access to bioethics programs in the United States and have collaborated with U.S. organizations working in this field. Nevertheless, special features of Canada’s multicultural society and public health services are increasingly seen as raising distinctive issues requiring special attention. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of current ...

Bioethics in biomedicine in the context of a global higher education area

The University is tasked with drawing together, transmitting and maintaining knowledge, while creating an area where the ethical "sense" required for working in the field of Biology and Biomedicine can be provided. Although scientific knowledge is present on an overwhelming scale in nature and, therefore, its discovery is unceasing, this does not mean that, as a human being, the researcher has ...