Unanswered questions: bioethics and human relationships.

Paediatrics-based fetal care: unanswered ethical questions.

1.Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2.Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 3.Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA 4.Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, MO, U...

On moralizing and hidden agendas: the pot and the kettle in political bioethics.

Henry et al. (2007) present a cogent analysis of the use of propranolol in preventing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They express a wide range of unanswered questions regarding this use of propranolol and criticize the report of the President’s Council on Bioethics (2003) on pharmacologic memory suppression on grounds of its obviously conservative agenda. The authors’ greatest concern i...

Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda.

Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context in which clinical relationships operate and can overlook factors that affect health more broadly than do exotic technologies. A broader bioethics agenda would take ...

Islamic bioethics: between sacred law, lived experiences, and state authority.

There is burgeoning interest in the field of "Islamic" bioethics within public and professional circles, and both healthcare practitioners and academic scholars deploy their respective expertise in attempts to cohere a discipline of inquiry that addresses the needs of contemporary bioethics stakeholders while using resources from within the Islamic ethico-legal tradition. This manuscript serves...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions