Onm-16: Ethics Issues in Assisted ReproductiveTechnology

Three Issues in Legal Ethics

Foundational issues in information ethics

Purpose – Information ethics, as is well known, has emerged as an independent area of ethical and philosophical inquiry. There are a number of academic journals that are devoted entirely to the numerous ethical issues that arise in connection with the new information communication technologies; these issues include a host of intellectual property, information privacy, and security issues of con...

Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics

601 macromolecular species, a definition of the properties of the relevant cell receptors, and evaluation of specific membrane alterations, are several of the topics which were considered. Various new methodologies and approaches were detailed, and significant contributions to the channelling of scientific thought were made by various authorities in the field. The contribution from Paul Greenga...

Onm-16: Gamete and Embryo Donation: An Islamic View

Background: Every day, many children are born by assisted reproductive techniques. For some infertile couples have no other way to have a child except donation. So far, there are too many children are born by donation protocols or surrogacy. As in donation protocols and surrogacy, a third party helps the couple by sharing gamete, embryo or uterus, there can be some social, legal and psychologic...

Focus: current issues in medical ethics.

The current debates about seat belts in motor cars and the evils of smoking may only be straws in the wind if the scenario sketched in this paper were translated into a social, political programme. Then 'illness would increasingly be seen as a failure to keep healthy and thus culpable. The failures [the patients] ... must either be irresponsible and hence punishable at least by the imposition o...

Ethical Issues in Teaching About Research Ethics

Ethical issues in the conduct of research is an important topic in research methods courses for graduate students in many Faculties of Education. The authors relate their experiences in teaching this topic over several semesters using a simulation of the well-known research into obedience by Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s. Students’ reactions to the use of the simulation at both emotional a...