And in 1953 the Pentagon adopted the Nuremberg Code for its defensive studies of atomic, biological and chemical warfare. They were the first and only US government agency to adopt the code word for ...

The center derives its name from Elizabeth Anscombe, a Catholic philosopher who was well-known for her defense of human life ...

Leading global doctors, researchers, and lawyers have joined forces with patient representatives and created the first-ever ...

Lisa Cosgrove, The DSM, big pharma, and clinical practice guidelines: Protecting patient autonomy and informed consent, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 4, No. 1, ...

Gather all relevant factual information about the patient and the ethical issue. Seek input from all parties affected by the decision, including family members and the interprofessional health care ...

The primary moral goal for today’s bioethics can be summarized in a single sentence: Get out of the way.

Providing informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice -- and a physician’s failure to provide proper informed consent is grounds for legal action. But, determining what constitutes ...

Tom Beauchamp, scholar who helped define modern bioethics, dies at 85 As a Georgetown University philosophy professor, Dr. Beauchamp in the 1970s worked to shape the guidelines for medical ...

This confusion has been exacerbated by the bioethics revolution that began in the 1970s, which championed informed consent and individual autonomy so effectively that these values now dominate all ...

As with Hippocrates, Helsinki permitted exceptions to informed consent, such as when the physician-researcher thought that silence was in the best medical interest of the subject.

Yet during the pandemic, when medical interventions were forced on patients indiscriminately with no regard for individual autonomy or informed consent, bioethicists were nowhere to be found.