How should we define "death"? Who should decide when to withdraw life-sustaining treatment? How should we allocate donated organs? At Saint Louis University’s Department of Health Care Ethics, these ...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Haley Kerr ’24 is a neuroscience major with a biology minor and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. The ...

Meghan Abate '25 is a neuroscience major and an economics minor and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) announced its updated Code of Ethics on Interactions with US Health Care Professionals on October 6, 2025. The medical technology industry has ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published “Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health: Guidance on large multi-modal models” (LMMs), which is designed to provide ...

A history of spinal injury left Mr. B, aged 49 years, with daily pain levels that rendered him unable to work a steady job. The most helpful medication is a narcotic pain medicine. Mr. B signed a pain ...

We propose a principle of sustainability to complement established principles used for justifying healthcare resource allocation. We argue that the application of established principles of equal ...

Historically, philosophers have studied ethical theories that focused on how we make decisions based on what is morally right or wrong. But a somewhat newer branch known as care ethics, approaches ...