A prominent philosopher and bioethics expert has quit the editorial board of The American Journal of Bioethics, calling into question the way articles are reviewed and the process for reviewing an ...

The Journal of Medical Ethics is one of the preeminent bioethics journals in the world. So, when an article appears in the publication that is subversive to human decency and basic morality, notice ...

It is a commonplace to hold that bioethics research has become increasingly competitive with increased application pressures for grants, decreased funders and funds available. One would expect that ...

At dinner after a recent meeting about ethics and genetics, a guest told me that he had never been to a conference of bioethicists before. The person next to him sat up straight, as if insulted, and ...

Alan Petersen receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

Associate Professor Brian D Earp, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. The JME features articles on various ethical aspects of health care ...

Bioethics has always been enmeshed in controversy. Arising out of gross abuses of the rights of human subjects in mid-20th-century scientific research, the field has grown to take on a variety of ...

In an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics — one of the field’s most influential publications — an independent researcher argues that transgender people should be granted access to AI-generated ...

All Canadian bioethicists need to reflect on the meaning and value of their work, to see more clearly how the ethics of bioethics is being undermined from within. In the case involving Dr Olivieri, ...

Many academic bioethicists have financial ties to the very companies whose ethics they evaluate, but few policies govern how those ties are disclosed or managed to avoid conflicts of interest, a ...

Bioethics is a small field, but we punch above our weight when it comes to writing. Professional journal articles, reports, and policies are arguably our primary written products, since the main job ...