With H1N1 and flu vaccines on everyone's minds, the November issue of The American Journal of Bioethics couldn't be more timely. What do people think about the measures necessary to protect ourselves from flu? Do we, or more importantly should we trust our government to protect us in a pandemic?... (read the rest)
Today, now available at editorial.bioethics.net, are The American Journal of Bioethics' new sibling journals, AJOB Neuroscience and AJOB Primary Research. These latest additions to the AJOB family will begin publishing in 2010 and each have 4 issues per year of exciting new content written by the top scholars in the... (read the rest)
Already live and available on bioethics.net is the October issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Featured this month on the cover is the topic of nanomedicine including an editorial by Dr. Summer Johnson on whether the era of nanomedicine is upon us, still galloping toward us, or likely simply... (read the rest)
Facebook and other social networking sites. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing. A taxonomy for empirical bioethics. The issues were so important, so numerous, and so overwhelming that it took a special DOUBLE issue of AJOB to cover them all. The response from the field, and from those outside bioethics, was so voluminous... (read the rest)
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net or on Facebook.... (read the rest)
Launched today, pandemic.bioethics.net is your leading source for bioethics news, commentary and scholarship related to swine flu (H1N1), vaccine research, public health policy and more. Whether you want up-to-the minute news updates, to comment on what we are writing here at bioethics.net, or to post your own news stories and... (read the rest)
The May issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is now available at bioethics.net. This issue of AJOB-Neuroscience confronts some important issues about the role of animal research in understanding the human brain and clinical studies involving humans and the ethics of that research. To read about why doing research... (read the rest)
The American Journal of Bioethics' April 2009 issue is now online with some timely and thought-provoking Target Articles that certain to catch your attention. From should we scan our entire bodies, to whose perspective matters, to are parents rushed into end-of-life decisions for dying children, this issue promises not to... (read the rest)
Bioethics.net is proud to welcome the NYU Master of Arts program: Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment to its group of sponsors. The NYU Master of Arts in Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment promotes a broad conception of bioethics encompassing both medical and environmental ethics through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and... (read the rest)
If you have a book, article, or PhD to finish and you'd like to do it in Europe for a month or up to six months, the Brocher Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving scientists a community in which to do research, is accepting applications for visiting researchers... (read the rest)
The year of 2009 has already started out to be a fascinating year for bioethics: divorcing spouses want internal organs back as part of settlement offers, Angelina Jolie look-alike gives birth to octuplets, and an inmate who is suing prison officials for force feeding him on his hunger strike. Bioethics.net... (read the rest)
The bioethics.net video library is opening, and soon, through iTunes and already some of the free video we plan to make available is sitting around on a half-baked You Tube page that you can access at youtube.com/bioethix as well as via bioethics.net. At the moment we're just dumping the disks... (read the rest)
Hot off the presses and soon to hit your mailbox, the December issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is now available at bioethics.net. This month's issue features an article by Johns Hopkins' researchers led by Jeremy Sugarman who explore the effects that viewing medical television shows have upon... (read the rest)
Today on bioethics.net, you will find the November issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Featured in last month's issue of the journal are articles by Juli Murphy and colleagues from the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University who report on the attitudes of citizens regarding... (read the rest)
Starting today in Cleveland, Ohio, more than 700 bioethicists from around the world gather to debate topics ranging from enhancement in sport to vaccine ethics to the bioethics of food at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. This year's meeting is held at the... (read the rest)
Take a look at the 5 most read news stories from bioethics.net this week and you'll see that our readers were most interested in a historical essay on the role of genetics in politics (and its scandals), a story about a new end-of-life care bill in California, and an "empowered... (read the rest)
Props to x-ray technicians and those who love them at http:///xraytechnicianschools.org who said that our site is among the top 100 cutting edge science blogs and among the top 3 biology blogs on the web. While you all are off reading the blog and AJOB Neuroscience and all its amazing... (read the rest)