Sentences with phrase «biomedical ethics»

Her active research in biomedical ethics, includes returning genomic research results to participants and the impact of regulations on genomic research.

Generally the more «practical» side of my work has been concerned with biomedical ethics and democratic theory.

I have been somewhat hesitant to be drawn too deeply into biomedical ethics.

Some medical schools are requiring courses on biomedical ethics, some business schools are requiring courses in business ethics, etc..

Our universities have very effective biomedical ethics guidelines that have evolved slowly and expertly over decades.

«These trends all lead to the question of what's considered normal,» says Jennifer Fishman, an assistant professor of biomedical ethics at McGill University.

This semester, I'm taking a class in Jewish biomedical ethics at a local rabbinical school.

Callahan is president of the Hastings Center, which is a very major player in the debates over biomedical ethics.

The fact that the now regular advances in biomedical technology affect the lives of everybody in our society in new, unprecedented ways has made biomedical ethics a conversation in which many different voices are striving to be heard.

Even before final FDA approval, neuromuscular and biomedical ethics teams at Stanford, including pediatric neurologist and SMA expert John Day, MD, PhD, were already collaborating with colleagues around the country to grapple with the practical and ethical challenges of providing treatment.

Ruth Fischbach, NIH's senior adviser for biomedical ethics, was instrumental in designing and creating the program.

Mats Hansson is the director of the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at the University of Uppsala and has conducted extensive research in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medical ethics.

Dr. Hyder has studied biomedical ethics, conducted surveys on research ethics, participated in the training of African and Asian health professionals in ethics, and explored health systems ethics including specific issues such as standard of treatment and ancillary care.

He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of biomedical ethics with particular expertise in the application of empirical methods and evidence - based standards for the evaluation and analysis of bioethical issues.

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

Topics will include the nature of philosophy, the relationship of faith and reason, the Judeo - Christian tradition and scientific inquiry, sexual ethics, marriage and family, and biomedical ethics.

David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and professor of medicine and of biomedical ethics, said those concerns resonate beyond treating SMA patients, who represent a relatively small group of people, because competition is fierce for resources to treat patients with any number of illnesses for which new and more expensive treatments are emerging.

This compromise was a little less demanding than working full time (I was paid hourly, so when exams came around, I could choose not to work at all) and it allowed me to concentrate on some courses that exposed me to other issues, such as transgenic agriculture, biomedical ethics, even biological weapons and international law.

That's the future a biomedical ethics expert envisions for 20 to 40 years from now — soon enough that today's children may face it when they start their own families.

I took a biomedical ethics course last semester.