Ethical Issues Attendant with the Current Pandemic of Diabetes

ethical dilemmas in art : current issues

Most treatments in assisted reproduction raise ethical issues, and it is difficult to be exhaustive and detailed. Nevertheless, the aim of this chapter was to highlight the main ethical concerns that have been discussed since the inception of the complex, although now routine, technique of IVF. That the human embryo could be observed outside the body captured the world’s imagination, in a diffe...

Current ethical issues in organ transplantation.

Ethics in a medical context have been defined by Professor Gordon Dunstan' as "the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine". Ethics are expressed in the language of duties: the duty in general to serve and protect the interests of patients in ways consistent with the corporate ethics of the profession, and the moral values held in common with society. These duties, r...

Neurotechnology: Current Developments and Ethical Issues

Confronting an influenza pandemic: ethical and scientific issues.

The prolonged concern over the potential for a global influenza pandemic to cause perhaps many millions of fatalities is a chilling one. After the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) scares [1], attention has turned towards the possibility of an avian influenza virus hybridizing with a human influenza virus to create a highly virulent, as yet unknown, killer, on a scale unseen since the Sp...

Stem Cell Therapy: the ethical issues

The ability to culture human stem cells long term, and possibly indefinitely, and to control how such cells specialise to form the different tissues of the body offers the possibility of major advances in healthcare. Stem cells have been isolated and cultured, but a great deal of research is required to develop cell lines which can generate replacement cells and tissues to treat many diseases.S...