On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling ...

The world of bioethics is defined by four basic principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Healthcare practitioners use these principles as their guiding force when evaluating the ...

Global justice and human rights are remarkably absent in discussions of bioethics. Julien Harneis Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

More consensus is emerging that mental health law should better inform and engage loved ones of those with serious mental ...

Decision-making, e.g. about the treatment of somebody in a coma, often becomes a massive burden for the near relatives or the partner of such a person. Which weight should be given to their point of ...

Now in its second season, the Berman Institute of Bioethics' podcast explores complex bioethics questions through ...

With some reluctance, I’ve come to the sad realization the COVID-19 pandemic has been a stress test for bioethics, a field of study that intersects medicine, law, the humanities and the social ...