On campus, I founded an ethics and social interest discussion group that focuses on addressing and facilitating discussion about relevant ethical issues in the current medical community. Next year I am pursuing a dual masters in Bioethics and Genetic Counseling at Northwestern University. Following my time at Northwestern I hope to enter medical school. My specific interests surround infertilit...

The return of genetic research results after death in the pediatric setting comes with unique complexities. Researchers must determine which results and through which processes results are returned. This paper discusses the experience over 15 years in pediatric cancer genetics research of returning research results after the death of a child and proposes a preventive ethics approach to protocol...

In 1994, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine concluded, although not unanimously, that whereas preimplantation sex selection is appropriate to avoid the birth of children with genetic disorders, it is not acceptable when used solely for nonmedical reasons. Since 1994, the further development of less burdensome and invasive medical technologies for sex selection...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

OBJECTIVE To provide a legal and ethical analysis of some of the implementation challenges faced by the Population Therapeutics Research Group (PTRG) at Memorial University (Canada), in using genealogical information offered by individuals for its genetics research database. MATERIALS AND METHODS This paper describes the unique historical and genetic characteristics of the Newfoundland and La...

Business ethics is applied ethics, says Velasquez (1992, p. 2). The application of ethics to organizational contexts can take two forms, which are both ‘practical’, but in different ways. The first type of application aims at analysing specific ethical problem types in organizations, in order to provide normative clarification and guidance. Examples of this are advertizing ethics, the ethics of...