Bioethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods.

30 Aug 2009 There are many good reasons for a merger between bioethics and human rights. First, though, significant philosophical groundwork must be done to clarify what a human right to health would be and--if we accept that it exists--exactly how it might ... Read more...

Women and children first: transforming a historic defining moment into a contemporary ethical imperative.

26 Aug 2009 "Women and children first" is a familiar phrase and comes down to us from the heroic sacrifice of their lives by British soldiers on the HMS Birkenhead in 1852. "Women and children first," the New York Declaration of the International Academy of ... Read more...

The ethics of improving African traditional medical practice: scientific or African traditional research methods?

11 Aug 2009 The disease burden in Africa, which is relatively very large compared with developed countries, has been attributed to various factors that include poverty, food shortages, inadequate access to health care and unaffordability of Western medicines to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bioethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ethical challenges of genomics for perinatal medicine: the Budapest Declaration. 29 Sep 2009
• Women and children first-or last? The New York Declaration. 29 Sep 2009
• [Everything is similar, certainly. Is everything equal?] 7 Sep 2009
• Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods. 30 Aug 2009
• [Nurses, usage and families. 8/8--regulatory framework of organ donation] 30 Aug 2009
• Women and children first: transforming a historic defining moment into a contemporary ethical imperative. 26 Aug 2009
• The ethics of improving African traditional medical practice: scientific or African traditional research methods? 11 Aug 2009
• Research and legal liability. 5 Aug 2009
• The patient-physician relationship in the 21st century. Introduction. 30 Jul 2009
• Neuroscientists need neuroethics teaching. 8 Jul 2009
• [Bioethics and biomedical experiment evolution from Alkmaion to Pavlov. Dedicated to 160 years since I.P. Pavlov's birthday] 29 Jun 2009
• A commentary on the President's Council on Bioethics report: the changing moral focus of newborn screening. 29 Jun 2009
• Rewriting the end. 29 Jun 2009
• Health care disaster ethics: a call to action. 29 Jun 2009
• Religion, bioethics and nursing practice. 29 Jun 2009
• Foucault, genealogy, ethics. 20 Jun 2009
• Assessing health technologies in a changing world. 14 Jun 2009
• [About the bioethics' law] 2 Jun 2009
• An innovative approach to teaching ethics and professionalism. 30 May 2009
• The incoherence of determining death by neurological criteria: a commentary on "Controversies in the determination of death", a White Paper by the President's Council on Bioethics. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Bioethics'

Definition: A branch of applied ethics that studies the value implications of practices and developments in life sciences, medicine, and health care.

Descriptor UI: D001675

Alternative terms: Bioethics; Health Care Ethics; Ethics, Health Care; Biomedical Ethics; Ethics, Biomedical;

Related Mesh Headings: Ethics, Medical; Ethicists;

Allowable Qualifiers: education; history; trends;

Tree Number: K01.316.070; N05.350.200;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: SPEC only; for issues in bioethics use BIOETHICAL ISSUES or its specifics; ETHICISTS is also available