On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling ...
The world of bioethics is defined by four basic principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Healthcare practitioners use these principles as their guiding force when evaluating the ...
Lecture by Professor James F. Childress on the suitability of different concepts of autonomy On Thursday, October 18, 6.00 p.m. medical ethicist Professor James F. Childress (University of Virginia) ...
A class offered occasionally within Barrett, The Honors College, teaches LGBTQ+ issues are critical for providing additional perspectives that deepen students' understanding of how to help others.
There is no good death, I now know. It always hurts, both the dying and the left behind. But there is a good enough death.” So concludes Ann Neumann in response to the central questions of her book: ...
“PROTESTANT” IS A TERM APPLIED TO MANY DIFFERENT Christian denominations, with a wide range of beliefs, who trace their common origin to the Reformation of the 16th century. Protestant ideas have ...
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 ...
Decision-making, e.g. about the treatment of somebody in a coma, often becomes a massive burden for the near relatives or the partner of such a person. Which weight should be given to their point of ...
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