BRAIN DEATH IS DEFINED AS THE COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE absence of all brain function. It is diagnosed by means of rigorous testing at the bedside. The advent of neurologic or brain death criteria to ...

A few years ago, I was working in the intensive-care unit when an elderly male, pale as chalk, was rushed into one of the empty rooms. He had recently been admitted to the hospital with a brain ...

The birth of bioethics as a distinct branch of applied ethics is connected with extremely intensive extension of biomedicai sciences in the second half of the 20th century. The problems which are ...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? There is no universally agreed definition of AI. Broadly speaking, AI tends to refer to computing technologies that replicate or resemble processes and tasks ...

A POWERFUL NEW technique for editing genomes, CRISPR-Cas9, is the latest in a series of advances in biotechnology that have raised concerns about the ethics of biomedical research and inspired calls ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Philosophy has a problem with expertise. The discipline is, at its heart, a form of questioning that struggles to provide for easy or ...

The exploding field of bioethics has created the need for a sound understanding of Catholic teaching regarding the dignity of the human person — especially on the trending topic of in vitro ...

Sarah Franklin is chair of sociology and director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. In the autumn of 1869, Charles Darwin was hard at work revising the ...