Background and Objective: Bioethics is a multidisciplinary subject which has been of major significance to biotechnology researchers and related fields. The aim of this survey was to assess knowledge and attitudes of postgraduate students of Medical Faculty regarding bioethical issues. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among the postgraduate basic medical scie...

When one googles the words “global bioethics” and “the book,” one can see that the author of the greatest number of books with “global bioethics” in the title is Henk ten Have. After a handbook and an encyclopedia of global bioethics and after a discussion on bioethics education from a global perspective, Henk ten Have decided to write an introduction to the subject of global bioethics. His lat...

UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established in 1993. In twenty years it has adopted three international declarations, on the human genome (1997), human genetic data (2003) and bioethics (2005); produced reports on a wide range of bioethics issues; and developed capacity building and public education programmes in bioethics. Yet UNESCO has sometimes struggled to assert its authority in the wide...

The global spread of bioethics from its North-American and European provenance to non-Western societies is currently raising some concerns. Part of the concern has to do with whether or not the exportation of bioethics in its full Western sense to developing non-Western states is an instance of ethical imperialism or bioethical neocolonialism. This paper attempts an exploration of this debate i...

Integrative bioethics is a brand of bioethics conceived and propagated by a group of Croatian philosophers and other scholars. This article discusses and shows that the approach encounters several serious difficulties. In criticizing certain standard views on bioethics and in presenting their own, the advocates of integrative bioethics fall into various conceptual confusions and inconsistencies...

Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioethics to the universal problem of suffering, and 2) the professional proselytizing or "missionizi...

the questionnaire of morality in biotechnological research that has been drafted by this writer includes four sections dealing with various aspects of a research in this field. the first section contains general questions such as the aim and the anticipated achievement(s) of the research. the second section includes question concerning the subject. regarding the human being as the subject of re...

bioethics is a novel branch in the field of applied normative ethics that analyze challenges and problems resulted from creation and development of new biotechnology. nowadays necessity of prohibition in some scope of bioethics is attracted by some legalists and moralists. in this direction, one of the related issue about bioethics is use of penal sanctions protecting these prohibitions. there ...

In recent times, bioethics has emerged as a burgeoning interdisciplinary field of scholarly investigation which has in the past decades migrated from bedside consultations to public policy debates and wider cultural and social conversations that privilege all discourse about everyday life issues. Today, bioethics is increasingly seen as a field departing from a multi-disciplinary perspective to...