Bioethical Issues - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Current bioethical issues in parasitology.

30 Aug 2008 Parasitic diseases constitute the most common infections among the poorest billion people, entailing high mortality rates and leading to long-term infirmities and poverty. Although the setting-up of public health programs implies many ethical ... Read more...

Gender "tailored" conceptions: should the option of embryo gender selection be available to infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive technology?

30 Jul 2008 The purpose of this article is to ascertain and appraise the ethical issues inherent to the utilisation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for gender selection in infertile patients anticipating undergoing a medically indicated assisted ... Read more...

When the boss turns pusher: a proposal for employee protections in the age of cosmetic neurology.

30 Jul 2008 Neurocognitive enhancement, or cosmetic neurology, offers the prospect of improving the learning, memory and attention skills of healthy individuals well beyond the normal human range. Much has been written about the ethics of such enhancement, but ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Bioethical Issues'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ethics. Do we need "synthetic bioethics"? 10 Sep 2008
• Current bioethical issues in parasitology. 30 Aug 2008
• Consciousness unchained: ethical issues and the vegetative and minimally conscious state. 30 Aug 2008
• Encephaloethics: a history of the ethics of the brain. 30 Aug 2008
• Stem cells. Ethics questions add to concerns about NIH lines. 6 Aug 2008
• On acts, omissions and responsibility. 30 Jul 2008
• Gender "tailored" conceptions: should the option of embryo gender selection be available to infertile couples undergoing assisted reproductive technology? 30 Jul 2008
• When the boss turns pusher: a proposal for employee protections in the age of cosmetic neurology. 30 Jul 2008
• Human reproductive cloning and reasons for deprivation. 30 Jul 2008
• The ethics of killing and letting die: active and passive euthanasia. 30 Jul 2008
• The green revolution in bioethics. 30 Jul 2008
• Who is buying bioethics research? 30 Jul 2008
• Who is buying normative bioethics research? 30 Jul 2008
• 'Tell us what you want to do, and we'll tell you how to do it ethically'--academic bioethics: routinely ideological and occasionally corrupt. 30 Jul 2008
• Disciplining bioethics. 29 Jun 2008
• An apology for Socratic bioethics. 29 Jun 2008
• Good guys don't wear white. 29 Jun 2008
• Challenging norms in bioethics--helping others to find their voice. 29 Jun 2008
• The scourge: moral implications of natural embryo loss. 29 Jun 2008
• Postmortem fatherhood: life after life. 26 Jun 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