Tom Beauchamp, a philosopher and ethicist who helped codify boundaries on medical research involving human trials and sought to strengthen protocols on animal testing to recognize moral concerns such ...

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 ...

Under the right conditions, full informed consent is not ethically required for some types of health research, according to a commentary from leading bioethics experts. The position is a considerable ...

Doha, 7 January 2013 A highly specialised and influential bioethics seminar, held by The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), concluded today. The three-day event took place at ...

To assess the state of bioethics, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University assembled an all-star cast of seminal thinkers in the field this past weekend. Most of those gathered think ...

Doha, 3 January 2012 -- The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) will be holding an informative and engaging seminar called Principles of Bioethics at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic ...

Fully informed consent is not ethically required for some types of health research, leading bioethics experts contend in an article published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine ...