Subject: Environmental Ethics

COVID-19 pandemic, Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Informed Consent, Justice

Environmental Toxins Are a Threat to Informed Consent and Justice. How is Bioethics Going ...

by Keisha Ray PhD and Jane Cooper MBE One of the inequities to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic is an increase in the d...

June 28, 2021

Environmental Ethics, Public Health

COVID-19 and the Refutation of Normality

by Richard B. Gibson, MA The COVID-19 pandemic has upended daily life and forced many people on the planet to alter thei...

April 14, 2020

Environmental Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Science, Technology

“Living robots”: Ethical questions about Xenobots

by Simon Coghlan, Ph.D. and Kobi Leins, Ph.D. Xenobots have been called “novel living machines” and “living robots”. A c...

February 20, 2020

Environmental Ethics, Gender Disparities, Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, In Memoriam, Justice, Neuroethics, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Privacy, Professionalism, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science, Social Justice, Technology

BioethicsTV: Legionnaires’ Disease and the Cover-Up That Killed Flint Residents Duri...

by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. The story of Flint, Michigan’s water crisis, beginning in 2014 is a story that most people are fami...

September 13, 2019

Decision making, Environmental Ethics, Global Ethics, Reproductive Ethics

Climate Change & Bioethics: Do We Have a Duty to Not Procreate?

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. “I’ve always wanted to try and ensure that, even before having a child and hoping to have ...

August 12, 2019

Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Environmental Ethics, Global Ethics, Health Disparities, Justice, Public Health, Science

The One Health Approach to Zoonotic Emerging Infectious Diseases

The following post can also be found in the October 2018 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. by Ariadne Nichol a...

October 22, 2018

Clinical Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Privacy, Science

War Against Science 3.0: The EPA, Doublespeak, and Obfuscation

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Transparency is a good thing. In ethics courses, we teach that doctors should be transparent to ...

April 27, 2018

Environmental Ethics

We Can and Must Rebuild the Bridges of Interdisciplinary Bioethics

by Darryl R. J. Macer This editorial is made available on bioethics.net. The editorial along with the target article and...

August 23, 2017

Environmental Ethics, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Media, Politics, Public Health, Science

Can Science Survive in a Communications Blackout: Restricting Speech Violates Scientific E...

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. That good ethics begins with good facts is an oft-heard mantra and was my first lesson when I be...

January 24, 2017

Clinical Trials & Studies, Cultural, Environmental Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Media, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science

President Trump & A Republican Congress: What Might It Mean?

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a 2000 episode of The Simpsons, a flash forward shows Lisa being elected the first heterosexu...

November 9, 2016

Environmental Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Public Health

FDA Moves On Postponing Post-Antibiotic World

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This month, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final ruling that certain 19 chemi...

September 13, 2016