Irish bioethics council axed

Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)

The US President's Council on Bioethics [3] was an organization [4] headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush [5] on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush [5] created the President's Council on Bioethics [3] (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning [6] and embryonic stem ...

International bioethics? The role of the Council of Europe.

Ethical problems relating to medicine and biology cover a wide variety of issues including scientific research, diffusion of new technologies, the doctor/patient relationship, and the allocation of limited health care resources, to mention but a few. Ethical problems are very similar in most countries in Europe. Actually, most health care is provided in similar ways across Europe and there are ...

First Symposium of The Irish Research Council for

Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report: Novel Techniques for the prevention of mitochondrial DNA disorders: an ethical review London: Nuffield Council of Bioethics 2012

From the first reading I liked this report because it does what all good reports should do: it takes a complex subject – pronuclear transfer (PNT) and maternal spindle transfer (MST) explains it clearly (chapter 2), considers the ethical pros and cons for its use (chapter 4) in a particular context – the prevention of debilitating mitochondrial disease (chapter 1) in a measured way and, finally...