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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In 2011 Bioethics celebrated the publication of its 25th Volume with a Special Anniversary Issue (25:2). 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.

Other Recent Special Issues:

Volume 25, Issue 8
International Association of Bioethics 10th World Congress

Volume 25, Issue 7
Clinical Ethics Support Services: Theory, method and practise

Volume 25, Issue 2
25th Anniversary Issue

Volume 25, Issue 1
End-of-Life Decision-Making in Canada

Volume 24, Issue 7
International Perspectives on the Baby Trade

Volume 24, Issue 5
Futures for Bioethics?

Volume, 24, Issue 3
Advance Directives from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Volume 24, Issue 1
Revisiting Ethical Considerations for Research involving Prisoners

The Editors of Bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue in 2013 on the ethical and policy issues in synthetic biology for human health.

Submissions are invited on all aspects of this topic before October 1st 2012. Find out more here.

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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