Bioethics

In 2011, the Royal Society’s committee on end-of-life decision-making in Canada has published a free report in Bioethics on end-of-life decision-making. The committee spent two years studying this issue, and the experience of other countries which have decriminalized assisted suicide.

Read this report for free here.

Click below to read recent article highlights from Bioethics:

Living to the Bitter End? A Personalist Approach to Euthanasia in Persons with Severe Dementia
Chris Gastmans, Jan De Lepeleire

Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict of Liberties
Joyce C. Havstad  

The Moral Obligation to Create Children with The Best Chance Of The Best Life
Julian Savulescu, Guy Kahane  

End-Of-Life Care in the 21st Century: Advance Directives in Universal Rights Discourse
Violeta Beširević  

Patient Autonomy, Assessment of Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: A Call for Reasonableness in Deciding for Others
Kristine Bærøe  

Profits and Plagiarism: The Case of Medical Ghostwriting
Tobenna D. Anekwe

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Bioethics celebrates the publication of its 25th Volume with a Special Anniversary Issue! Click here to read for free online.

The special issue reviews how the nature of publishing bioethics and Bioethics, and the nature of the field, have evolved over the last quarter of a century. Contributors include: Anne Donchin, Nathan Emmerich, John Harris, Larry McCullough, Sue Sherwin and Heather Widdows, who reflect on different aspects of bioethics that were of particular importance to them. Some of these articles move ongoing discussions ahead, others reflect on the history of the field of bioethics as well as its methods.

Read the latest Special Issues from Bioethics:

Volume 25, Issue 8

Volume 25, Issue 7

Volume 25, Issue 2 - Available for Free

Volume 24, Issue 7

Volume 24, Issue 5

Volume, 24, Issue 3

Volume 24, Issue 1

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Developing World Bioethics provides long needed case studies, teaching materials, news in brief, and legal backgrounds to bioethics scholars and students in developing and developed countries alike.

Read 2010 Highlights from Developing World Bioethics for free:

Conscientious Objection in Developing Countries
Debora Diniz

Ethical Problems in Conducting Research in Acute Epidemics: The Pfizer Meningitis Study in Nigeria as an Illustration
Emmanuel R. Ezeome, Christian Simon  

Global Health Ethics for Students
Andrew D. Pinto, Ross E.G. Upshur  

Fair Trade International Surrogacy
Casey Humbyrd  

African and Western Moral Theories in a Bioethical Context
Thaddeus Metz