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Among the hot topics in bioethics, prostitution does not rank highly. A quick search of the ETHXWeb bioethics database at Georgetown University yielded ten times...

Your bioethics movie of the week deals with robot ethics. Your bioethics movie of the week deals with robot ethics. Robot and Frank, with Frank...

Peter Singer has been hailed as "one of the world's top 100 influential people" and one of "the most influential philosophers alive" and reviled as...

The former president of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in abducting infants from their mothers and...

More chicken are killed by humans than any other land animal. This is morally wrong, argues an Australian bioethicist More chicken are killed by humans...

Corruption is not a chapter heading in most bioethics textbooks. But a passionate article in a recent issue of the Journal of the Royal Society...

Tuberculosis patient Armando Rodriguez was urged multiple times to continue taking his tuberculosis medication. Tuberculosis patient Armando Rodriguez was urged multiple times to continue taking...

Doctors in Syria and Bahrain risk arrest and prison for treating patients without fear or favour. Doctors in Syria and Bahrain risk arrest and prison...

By 2032, students' brain characteristics could be the deciding factor in whether they get into the college of their dreams, researcher Prof Richard Heier, of...

Many of the most heated policy debates in bioethics hinge on the accuracy of the research -- in biology, medicine and social science. So anything...

Gadfly: a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action. There is no better word to describe Carl Elliott, a...