HCE 550 Topics in Bioethics (3 credits) The course is an analysis of some of the important topics in bioethics. Students will familiarize themselves with the ethical questions surrounding major topics in contemporary bioethics. The course will focus on one or more of the following topics: medical research with human subjects, the new genetic medicine, social justice and the delivery of healthca...

This fourth outline of a declaration on universal norms on bioethics was finalized by the Drafting Group of the International Bioethics Committee at its Sixth Meeting, held in Paris from 12 to 14 December 2004. On this occasion, the Drafting Group took account of the preliminary results of the written consultation on the third outline as well as comments formulated at the Fourth Meeting of the ...

It is the JME's 40th anniversary and my 20th anniversary working in the field. I reflect on the nature of bioethics and medical ethics. I argue that both bioethics and medical ethics together have, in many ways, failed as fields. My diagnosis is that better philosophy is needed. I give some examples of the importance of philosophy to bioethics. I focus mostly on the failure of ethics in researc...

Key words: COVID-19, bioethics, palliative care
 Citation: Esteban LAT, Jurez MG. COVID-19 and the fundamental role of bioethics. Anaesth pain intensive care 2021;25(2):244-245. DOI: 10.35975/apic.v25i2.1479
 Received: 26 January 2021, Reviewed: 30 Accepted: 13 February 2021

Health care is developing rapidly. So are its correlates, such as health care technology, research, education, administration, communication, and more. Such change requires ethical deliberation, as change that is not ethically guided poses unnecessary risks. This may be particularly true in relation to health care, which impacts some of the most central domains of human life. Bioethics addresse...

Since the 1980s, anthropologists have criticized a US-centric view of bioethics that presents individual autonomy as universal principle without acknowledging its embeddedness in time and place. A recent turn this critique points out how has gained dominance across world, traveling alongside clinical trials global health interventions. Here, centering competing bioethical vision disrupts divisi...

Five years have passed since the death of great scientist, "father" Russian bioethics Boris Grigoryevich Yudin. A round table held at Institute Philosophy Academy Sciences was dedicated to his memory. Memories B.G.Yudin and reinterpretation ideas in modern era become subject discussion by leading bioethicists. Science itself has undergone major changes over years. It is all more important "read...