At this time, I would like to introduce the new eSection called Bioethics. This field is assuming ever more importance as new techniques or drugs are developed simultaneously -- and not only because ...

Disaster can happen at any moment in space exploration. “A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode,” the editors of the journal Astronautics wrote in ...

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics here on campus is developing “Introduction to Bioethics” as a massive open online course set to launch April 15. As a graduate fellow working on the core design team at ...

Review of Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America. By Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno. Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Cloning humans. Legalized euthanasia. Stem-cell research. Patient privacy in the IT age. These and other issues touching on bioethics have flooded the news in recent weeks, highlighting how far ...