Quantum bioethics: ethics for all beings

Quantum bioethics: ethics for all beings Bioética quântica: uma ética para todos os seres

The present paper introduces elements for conceiving ethics for all beings based on the idea of laic compassion.

Bioethics for clinicians: 10. Research ethics.

Medical research involving human subjects raises complex ethical, legal and social issues. Investigators sometimes find that their obligations with respect to a research project come into conflict with their obligations to individual patients. The ethical conduct of research rests on 3 guiding principles: respect for persons, beneficience, and justice. Respect for persons underlies the duty to ...

A bioethics for all seasons

The last four decades have seen the emergence and flourishing of the field of bioethics and its incorporation into wide-ranging aspects of society, from the clinic or laboratory through to public policy and the media. Yet considerable debate still exists over what bioethics is and how it should be done. In this paper I consider the question of what makes good bioethics. Drawing on historical an...

Lethal experimentation on human beings: Roe's effect on bioethics.

Beginning with the assumption that human life begins at conception, this article explores the problematic terrain accompanying embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. “Lethal Experimentation on Human Beings,” as enumerated in the article’s title, refers to experimentation on and the removal of stem cells from human embryos, both of which ”kill” a human being. The article warns that the ...

The bioethics movement and hospital ethics committees.