Bioethics Education in Pakistan: Laudable Growth but a Need for Caution

A need for caution ] Forensic Speaker Recognition

T here has long been a desire to be able to identify a person on the basis of his or her voice. For many years, judges, lawyers, detectives, and law enforcement agencies have wanted to use forensic voice authentication to investigate a suspect or to confirm a judgment of guilt or innocence [3] [35]. Challenges, realities, and cautions regarding the use of speaker recognition applied to forensic...

Bioethics Education in Brazil

This chapter starts with presenting some historical facts that helped to develop bioethics in Brazil. Over the last 42 years, since the birth of the bioethics movement, the points of reference are usually the historical facts in the USA at the beginning of the 1970s (Van Rensselaer Potter and the Georgetown principlist paradigm); in Brazil we have only begun to talk about bioethics during the l...

Education for values and bioethics

"Education for Values and Bioethics" is a project which aims to help the student to build his/her personal ethics. It was addressed to ninth grade students (mean age 14) who frequented public education in all schools of the City of Porto, Portugal-EU in 2010-2013 (N-1164). This research and action project intended to promote the acquisition of knowledge in the following areas: interpersonal rel...

An innovative method of self-education through a bioethics group: the Ziauddin experience, Karachi, Pakistan

Respect for cultural diversity and the empirical turn in bioethics: a plea for caution

In the last two decades, there have been numerous calls for a culturally sensitive bioethics. At the same time, bioethicists have become increasingly involved in empirical research, which is a sign of dissatisfaction with the analytic methods of traditional bioethics. In this article, I will argue that although these developments have broadened and enriched the field of bioethics, they can easi...

Treatment of hepatitis C with interferons: a need for caution.