National Bioethics Commissions as Educators

Bioethics commissions: town meetings with a "blue, blue ribbon"

Mathematicians as Educators

18 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 1 The mathematical sciences professions are in a phase transition from which they may well emerge smaller and/or redistributed and much more dispersed. We are not an endangered species, but our health depends on being able to transcend our historic tendencies toward insularity, on our outreach to all of our sister and client communities. This message, in ...

Aboriginal Bioethics as Critical Bioethics: The Virtue of Narrative.

Editorial: Medical Physicists as Educators

Just over a year ago I was fortunate to have attended a workshop entitled “Becoming a better teacher of medical physics.” The workshop was sponsored by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and was targeted at medical physicists who are involved in teaching, whether it be to medical physics students, medical residents, technologists, or any other population group. Presenters includ...

[Twenty years of bioethics in Mexico: development and perspectives of the National Bioethics Commission].

Bioethics in Mexico has a history that reveals the vision and ethical commitment of iconic characters in the fields of health sciences and humanities, leading to the creation of the National Bioethics Commission responsible for promoting a bioethics culture in Mexico. Its development and consolidation from the higher perspective of humanism had the aim to preserve health, life and its environme...