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Bionics have long been part of science fiction (most famously the Six Million Dollar Man), the reality of prosthetics has mostly been disappointing. But, thanks to America’s endles...
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Bionics have long been part of science fiction (most famously the Six Million Dollar Man), the reality of prosthetics has mostly been disappointing. But, thanks to America’s endles...
In a stirring editorial featured in The BMJ, healthcare experts Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano, and Bob Klaber articulate a pressing crisis within global health systems—an erosion...
A few definitions will help at the outset. By IVF, or in vitro fertilization, I mean the generation of human embryos outside the body, ordinarily in a laboratory setting, with late...
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan is using critically disabled people for research at NYU Langone Health in wards that he calls 'bioemporia,' which is an immoral practice that must be expo...
Why Beginnings Matter for Bioethics and Moral Courage When does a human being begin to be? At first glance, the question seems simple, much as the question of when a person dies ca...
Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of animal organs, tissues, or cells into humans, has rapidly transitioned from speculative science to a clinical reality. It is driven by a...
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Dementia affects over 50 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to increase as populations age and the average lifespan increases. At a global scale, the care p...
Maria Morrow on moral theology.
In the evolving landscape of biology education, a crucial question arises: What is the fundamental obligation of a doctor, or indeed any scientist? Is it to achieve optimal outcome...
J’atorg struggled along on his motile pods, wheezing badly as his air sacs fought with the new atmosphere. He cursed the humans, invoking the gods of his people. Reflecting, heRead...
A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Source
Wesley Smith writes for National Review Online about a well-known bioethicist’s disturbing approach toward people. The utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer opposes human exceptiona...
Genetic profiles and the gene editor CRISPR threaten to bring a new eugenics of gene selection, but even eugenicist Foster Kennedy warned against limiting the diversity of the mind...
Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement.
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Companies aim to edit germlines, which they say could prevent a range of diseases. But do people want the tech? The post Advocacy Groups Express Mixed Views on Embryo Editing appea...
There is a fifth pillar of American medical ethics. It was never voted on, never formally adopted, and never appears in Beauchamp and Childress. It governs clinical conduct more re...
10 June 2026 | Any religious pronouncement, theological or experiential, doctrinal or practical, remains incomplete if it is not accompanied by a parallel cultural reflection able...
“Medicine,” said Pope Leo XIV, “can never become the servant of programmed death.”
Luke Bretherton, Comment Who counts as human? More precisely, who counts as the kind of human to whom I owe obligations, and who,...
AI, metaphysics, and the search for moral grounding in designPhoto by James Coleman on UnsplashA ConfessionIf you had told me a year ago that I would be writing an article suggesti...
Many Catholic ethics courses are badly organized. If the end of Catholic ethics is to make people virtuous, teachers would do well to put the “hot button” issues on the backburner...
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