ISIS may be harvesting organs from its victims. From the CBSNews story: Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look at allegations that the Islamic State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right ...

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 ...

Global justice and human rights are remarkably absent in discussions of bioethics. Julien Harneis Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

Decision-making, e.g. about the treatment of somebody in a coma, often becomes a massive burden for the near relatives or the partner of such a person. Which weight should be given to their point of ...