Bioethical Issues - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

[Contribution to the qualification of hospital ethics bodies in the cancer centers]

29 Jun 2009 The present op-ed article reports on a thesis study which examines the emergence of ethics committees in health care institutions. These committees have developed rapidly over the past few years in order to address ethical issues related to the ... Read more...

Cognitive enhancement: methods, ethics, regulatory challenges.

17 Jun 2009 Cognitive enhancement takes many and diverse forms. Various methods of cognitive enhancement have implications for the near future. At the same time, these technologies raise a range of ethical issues. For example, they interact with notions of ... Read more...

Democracy, individual rights and the regulation of science.

11 Jun 2009 Whether the US Constitution guarantees a right to conduct scientific research is a question that has never been squarely addressed by the United States Supreme Court. Similarly, the extent to which the First Amendment protects the right to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bioethical Issues - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Of plants and people. Why do we care about dignity? 30 Aug 2009
• [Contribution to the qualification of hospital ethics bodies in the cancer centers] 29 Jun 2009
• ["Who is your father? The laboratory told me..."] 22 Jun 2009
• Cognitive enhancement: methods, ethics, regulatory challenges. 17 Jun 2009
• Democracy, individual rights and the regulation of science. 11 Jun 2009
• Navigating the chasm between religious and secular perspectives in modern bioethics. 30 May 2009
• Responsible conduct by life scientists in an age of terrorism. 5 May 2009
• Constitutional restraints on the regulations of scientific speech and scientific research: commentary on "Democracy, individual rights and the regulation of science". 3 May 2009
• Bio-ethics vigilance vital: medical and legal doyens. 29 Apr 2009
• Normative foundations of technology transfer and transnational benefit principles in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. 21 Apr 2009
• Human dignity and human rights as a common ground for a global bioethics. 20 Apr 2009
• Forbidding science: some beginning reflections. 31 Mar 2009
• Deliberative Democracy and stem cell research in New York State: the good, the bad, and the ugly. 27 Feb 2009
• Relax rights to human genes. 30 Jan 2009
• [Persons with disabilities and Brazilian healthcare policies: thoughts about bioethics] 30 Dec 2008
• Ethical and regulatory issues in pediatric research supporting the non-clinical application of fMR imaging. 30 Dec 2008
• Federalism, federalism everywhere. 30 Oct 2008
• Quality of life and ethical and legal dilemmas in children during and after hematopoietic SCT procedure. 29 Sep 2008
• The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. 29 Sep 2008
• Bioethics and animal research: a personal perspective and a note on the contribution of Fritz Jahr. 19 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Bioethical Issues'

Definition: Clusters of topics that fall within the domain of BIOETHICS, the field of study concerned with value questions that arise in biomedicine and health care delivery.

Descriptor UI: D026688

Alternative terms: Bioethical Issues; Bioethical Issue; Issue, Bioethical; Issues, Bioethical;

Related Mesh Headings: Euthanasia; Human Experimentation; Patient Rights; Animal Experimentation;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards;

Tree Number: K01.316.034;

History Note: 2002; use BIOETHICS 1978-2001

Technical Notes: used for discussions of several specific issues that fall within the domain of BIOETHICS but not for discussions of the field or discipline as such; BIOETHICS is available for the specialty and BIOETHICISTS see ETHICISTS is available for the person