In the context of modern scientific and technological developments in biomedicine and health care, and the potential consequences of their application on humans and the environment, Potter's global bioethics concept resurfaces. By actualizing Potter's original thoughts on individual bioethical issues, the universality of two of his books, which today represent the backbone of the world bioethic...

The history of bioethics in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Cape Town (UCT) follows a similar pattern to elsewhere. At first, bioethics received little formal attention, but there has been a flowering of interest over the last few decades. There has also been a shift from a professionally insular view of bioethics to one informed by non-medical disciplines. While this patter...

Beginning with Barry Hoffmaster’s charge that we reclaim bioethics from the moral philosopher’s top-down theorizing, I discuss two philosophy contexts offer resources for kind of complex attention Hoffmaster demands: Iris Murdoch and Cora Diamond in Margaret Urban Walker, Hilde Lindeman, Marian Verkerk’s joint take on bioethics. My aim is: 1) to dispel a simplified notion bioethics; 2) unite st...

Bioethics has become a prominent part of the American landscape. In only a few short decades this interdisciplinary field permeated academia and the public sphere. Despite the recent scholarly effort to chronicle its history, there is still quite a bit of controversy surrounding bioethics’ origin and rapid evolution. Bioethics’ emergence has already been thoroughly examined through the lens of ...

The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act,in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South Korea?s Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the law to the South Korean National Assembly to allow the progress of biotechnology and life sciences research in South Korea while protecting human research subjects with practices such as informed c...

Data collectors play a vital role in producing scientific knowledge. They are also an important component in understanding the practice of bioethics. Yet, very little attention has been given to their everyday experiences or the context in which they are expected to undertake these tasks. This paper argues that while there has been extensive philosophical attention given to 'the what' and 'the ...

OBJECTIVES Our primary aim was to evaluate the impact of US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded bioethics training programmes (Fogarty bioethics training programmes, FBTPs) that trained individuals from Africa over the programme's first 10 years to examine changes between pretraining and post-training in individual achievement and to document any associations between individual, training...

Robert S. Olick, JD, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, [email protected]. Eli A. Braun, BA, served as a Research Associate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University when this article was written. Joel Potash, MD, is Professor Emeritus at the Center for Bioeth...

Bioethics is probably the sub-division of ethics that is currently of greatest interest to the public, since there is a widespread sense that recent and likely future scientific and technological developments will pose significant ethical challenges. The “culture wars” surrounding such life-and-death issues as abortion and euthanasia also generate interest in bioethics. Accordingly, effective t...

Recent decades have seen the emergence of two new fields of inquiry into ethical issues in medicine. These are the fields of bioethics and of health and human rights. In this critical review of these fields, the author argues that bioethics, partly because it has been construed so broadly, suffers from quality control problems. The author also argues that the field of health and human rights is...