If the coronavirus pandemic taught us anything, it’s that existing social inequities have an outsized impact upon the health of certain populations. This creates a need to think even more broadly and ...

Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, weighed in on bioethical issues that have arisen as a result ...

The Western Centre for Bioethics launched Dec. 4, 2025 to consolidate bioethics expertise to advance collaborative research and learning opportunities.

In 1927, the ethicality of eugenics faced a major test in the U.S. Supreme Court. Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of ...

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 43, No. 1, Special Issue: New Technologies, Developments in the Biosciences and the New Frontiers of Human Rights (January 2018), pp. 45-55 (11 pages) ...

A new era is born.

The CWRU Department of Bioethics provides PhD students with a multi-disciplinary learning environment, with faculty representing the fields of philosophy, social science, public health, law, medicine, ...

Bioethics can be considered on two fronts, each front needing an in-depth look. Ethics, on the one hand, is the identification, study, and mitigation or resolution of various conflicts that happen ...

Recommended: Prerequisite 6 hours of philosophy coursework. If you are willing to carefully and diligently work through the Critical Thinking Bootcamp Unit, though, you should be fine without meeting ...