How can rapid advancements in medical technology, questions about the criteria for brain death and the rise of transhumanism ...

Healthcare professionals have to change their perspective from viewing data as an asset to viewing patients as stakeholders whose trust underpins the entire system.

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Medical practitioners and life science researchers increasingly complain about bioethics as an inadequate endeavour that impedes both biomedical research and ethics itself. Some bioethicists have ...

Russell Blackford is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. In a recent op-ed in the Boston Globe, high-profile ...

Dr. Marielle Gross is the founder and CEO of heny, a decentralized biobank. Here’s where she says the blockchain and medical research studies overlap. Members of the heny team. CEO Marielle Gross is ...

If the coronavirus pandemic taught us anything, it’s that existing social inequities have an outsized impact upon the health of certain populations. This creates a need to think even more broadly and ...

ROCHESTER, New York — “Why is the church against using birth control?” “Is it ethical to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that has a link to fetal cell lines from abortion?” “What should Catholics consider ...

Susan Levin’s bright, spacious office in Dewey Hall reflects her approach to her scholarship. One wall is solidly lined with weighty volumes, while her desk is uncluttered except for two copies of her ...

A POWERFUL NEW technique for editing genomes, CRISPR-Cas9, is the latest in a series of advances in biotechnology that have raised concerns about the ethics of biomedical research and inspired calls ...

This course is a Spring 2026 semester registration that travels after the spring semester has ended in May. This course is open to ALL undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students from any ...

Priority #2 (Last chance for student assistantships applications) deadline is May 15. Student Assistantship application deadline is June 1. Final deadline for applications for the Fall semester is ...