On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling ...

The world of bioethics is defined by four basic principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Healthcare practitioners use these principles as their guiding force when evaluating the ...

The ethical principle of autonomy states that patients are entitled to make decisions about their own medical care when able. The American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics recognizes a ...

(The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.) We saw in Reviving Bioethics For An AI-Driven Future In Healthcare that the concept of ethics is often mentioned in the ...

From the moment physicians take the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm,” they commit themselves to ethical decision-making in their profession. As colleagues, one a physician and one a bioethicist, we ...

Between Nov 24 and Nov 27, 2025, the International Chair in Bioethics held its 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia.1 Despite being hosted in a ...

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 ...