Respectful Destruction by Louisa Howard

“…The interest view, developed by bioethicist Bonnie Steinbock, stresses that the most important characteristic for moral status is sentience— the ability to feel pain. …”
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“Don’t Drink, Don’t Smoke, What Do You Do?” by Wendy Dunne DiChristina

“…Moreover, nutritional studies can quickly amplify in the media, encouraging the public to change their diets and buy new products now, with no doctor’s visit or prescription needed. Bioethicist John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University advocates for a registry of conflicts of interest involving the food industry and suggests that nutrition researchers disclose their activist work and dietary preferences, if relevant to their particular research.[1]  These changes to the ethical standards of nutrition research are necessary in today’s fast-paced internet world. …”
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Apology Laws and the Doctor-Patient Relationship by Lisa Kearns

“…The new laws were designed to reduce medical error and malpractice litigation, but bioethicists hailed them too. Bioethicists hoped that the apology laws, even in the wake of adverse outcomes, could serve to maintain the continuity of care that is part of humane medical attention. …”
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Feminist Theory Reveals a Need for Justice over Autonomy in Research Ethics by Alix E. Masters

“…Many scholars and bioethicists have wondered the best way to obtain it, who should give it, and if it is even necessary at all.  …”
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In It Together by Silvia Croydon

“…However, Rebrikov met fierce opposition both inside and beyond Russia and, with leading CRISPR scientists and bioethicists abroad describing him as a “cowboy” who had “weak data” and was trying to “grab some attention.”[1] So far, Rebrikov’s plans have failed to come to fruition. …”
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Truth that Matters by Danielle Maydan

“… [5] See “Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia,” an essay where Hilde Lindemann, a philosopher and a bioethicist, examines the role of family caregivers in upholding their loved ones with dementia’s identities…”
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Truth that Matters by Danielle Maydan

“… [5] See “Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia,” an essay where Hilde Lindemann, a philosopher and a bioethicist, examines the role of family caregivers in upholding their loved ones with dementia’s identities…”
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Not Just Non-Consensual Pelvic Exams by Shelby Harriel - Hidlebaugh

“…But informed consent transcends a signature on a form.[6] As one bioethicist notes regarding intimate medical exams, “Clearly, standard consent forms fail to give patients the granularity they need to properly consent.”[7] I argue that consent forms should name the ancillary intimate tasks that doctors and medical staff plan to perform, especially those that patients might not expect, and when staff will conduct such tasks under anesthesia without the opportunity for patients to verbally consent at the moment.  …”
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An Interview with Dr. Daniel Callahan, Bioethics Pioneer by Voices in Bioethics

“…It’s interesting because I think bioethicists should appreciate what anthropologists do. …”
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The intellectual challenge of doing bioethics in South Africa by Anthony Egan

“…Contemporary bioethics is a complex and multidisciplinary combination of medicine, philosophy and law, made more difficult because few,if any, bioethicists are masters of all three disciplines. To further complicate matters, each discipline contains specialised subdisciplines and internal debates. …”
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The intellectual challenge of doing bioethics in South Africa by Anthony Egan

“…Contemporary bioethics is a complex and multidisciplinary combination of medicine, philosophy and law, made more difficult because few,if any, bioethicists are masters of all three disciplines. To further complicate matters, each discipline contains specialised subdisciplines and internal debates. …”
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COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa by Keymanthri Moodley, Siti Mukaumbya Kabanda, Anita Kleinsmidt, Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa

“…The views of African healthcare professionals or bioethicists on the role of CECs in Africa have not been explored or documented previously. …”
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Clarifying the best interests standard: the elaborative and enumerative strategies in public policy-making. by Lim, C, Dunn, M, Chin, J

“…In this paper, we discuss the bioethicists' response in relation to the state's possible role in clarifying the best interests standard. …”

Who's arguing? A call for reflexivity in bioethics. by Ives, J, Dunn, M

“…This change, we argue, requires philosophical bioethicists to adopt reflexive practices when applying their analyses in public forums, acknowledging openly that bioethics is an embedded socio-cultural practice, shaped by the ever-changing intuitions of individual philosophers, which cannot be viewed as a detached intellectual endeavour. …”

Clarifying the best interests standard: the elaborative and enumerative strategies in public policy-making by Lim, Chong-Ming, Dunn, Michael C., Chin, Jacqueline J.

“…In this paper, we discuss the bioethicists’ response in relation to the state's possible role in clarifying the best interests standard. …”
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The Hinge of Salvation: Body, Liturgy, and Bioethics by John Christopher Sikorski

“…Such a conception counteracts forms of utilitarian or technological reductionism of the person. While Catholic bioethicists will need to consider how such an account will have practical applicability to cases, the call to communion ought to be fostered through the liturgical life of the Church, which enables Catholic bioethicists to develop a liturgical worldview that guards against devaluations of the dignity of the human person.…”
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Professional Clinical Bioethics: The Next Generation by Jordan Potter

“… This commentary details the shortcomings of the traditional healthcare ethics committee model in modern healthcare and argues for the necessity of professional clinical bioethicists to better meet modern healthcare’s ethics needs. …”
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Global bioethics – myth or reality? by Williams-Jones Bryn, Holm Søren

“…If bioethics is a unified global field, or at the very least a closely shared way of thinking, then we should expect bioethicists to behave the same way in their academic activities anywhere in the world. …”
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'Well, It's the Risk of the Unknown… Right?': A Qualitative Study of Perceived Risks and Benefits of HIV Cure Research in the United States. by Karine Dubé, Jeff Taylor, Laurie Sylla, David Evans, Lynda Dee, Alasdair Burton, Loreen Willenberg, Stuart Rennie, Asheley Skinner, Joseph D Tucker, Bryan J Weiner, Sandra B Greene

“…We conducted a qualitative study to explore perceived risks and benefits of investigational HIV cure research among people living with HIV (PLWHIV), biomedical HIV cure researchers, policy-makers and bioethicists. METHODS:We conducted a qualitative research study using in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of PLWHIV, biomedical HIV cure researchers, policy-makers and bioethicists in 2015-2016. …”
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Respect for cultural diversity and the empirical turn in bioethics: a plea for caution by Karori Mbugua

“…At the same time, bioethicists have become increasingly involved in empirical research, which is a sign of dissatisfaction with the analytic methods of traditional bioethics. …”
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