BIOETHICS

Bioethics: determining who lives and who dies is another side of the issue.

Living wills, organ donations, and other ways to make bioethics personal

This essay uses science-fiction films to discuss major issues in bioethics such as cloning, genetic enhancement and artificial intelligence. Films include Gattaca, Blade Runner, The Matrix and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Who is James Wagner and how is he qualified to be on a Bioethics Council? Judge for yourself.

This paper attempts to define the field of bioethics - the ethics that drives all medical desicions. It also gives an overview of the major players in its development: Van Rensselar Potter, Joseph Fletcher, Paul Ramsey, Richard McCormick and Peter Singer

A look at the ethics of euthanasia, with an emphasis on Catholic and Jewish opinions.

This piece discusses the "pros" and "cons" of women conceiving at an older age, addressing issues to the mother and child on both a psychological and physical level.

How can we gain a field of legitimate bioethicists? ---We must open dialogue to a variety of disciplines and perspectives including philosophy, science, theology, and public policy while staying atune to public opinion.

Some parents believe that faith is the only cure for their child's illness. However, in cases where a child dies from lack of medical treatment, the government faces tough questions regarding freedom of religion.

According to a press release from the Seattle Children's Hospital yesterday, The Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at the hospital held their third annual ethics conference.

Dress for Success and the Women's Bioethics Project make clothing donations easy and worthwhile.

Of all the terms coined by scientists which have entered popular vocabulary, 'clone' has become one of the more emotive. The question shakes us all to our very souls.

Organ donation is a possible answer to the gift of life, but what is the price?

Involuntary commitment is an extreme remedy for imminent patient risk of harm to self or others. It is a dangerous, traumatic experience, not in the best interest of persons with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI).

Propranolol, which is currently used for high blood pressure and unofficially stage fright, has the capabililty to weaken or even block painful memories. Adrenaline is the source that defines the strength of the memory, & propranolol is used to block it.

This essay was written for an interdisciplinary biology course. It is a prelude to a debate paper discussing human cloning. This particular item serves as a good outline for the issue.

This debate paper was written for an interdisciplinary science course. It delves deeper into the ethical issues surrounding cloning.

Surrogacy and contract pregnancies have come with the cutting edge advances in reproductive medicine, but this relatively new phenomenon raises many legal and moral questions and controversies. Does surrogacy exploit women or reinforce their dignity?

The Plague is a five-part novel that tells the tale of a small, North African coastal town - Oran - how it has been afflicted by a plague and how it has dealt with it.

Theoretical normative ethics attempts to define reasonable normative principles that can be used as the basis of moral arguments. It is impor

HBCUs have continued to be a sure way for African-Americans or students from any race to get the best possible education available.

Uses ethical philosophies to construct a code of conditions for which human involvement in medical research should be applied.

There are two opposing standpoints on the use of embryonic stem cells for research and other medical purposes. I will argue that embryonic stem cell research is immoral on the ground that it requires the unwarranted destruction of a human life.