Emanuel Joins Biden COVID-19 Advisory Board
Zeke Emanuel among Biden’s COVID-19 advisors.
Mind Traveler
Renée Fox on her past—and the present.
Healthcare’s Hard Choices (and How to Stop Avoiding Them)
Penn President Amy Gutmann and PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno on their new book, which traces the history of bioethics and tackles some key issues in healthcare—from thorny moral questions to the frontiers of science and the most bitter divisions in American politics.
Identity Cleft
In the age of hybrid cells and genetic medicine, where does human identity lie?
Bioethics Goes to the Movies
First Bioethics Film Festival focuses on “authority and rebellion.”
The Rise of the Biocrats
From stem-cell research to HPV vaccinations, healthcare policy to genetic modification, bioethics increasingly provides the framework for weighing the costs and benefits of scientific progress. Long a leader in the field, the University is moving to make Penn the place where such work happens, and where the next generation of bioethicists will be minted.
The Healing Game
What happens when a physician won’t let go.
The Ethics of Early Intersex Intervention
Brownlee lecturer: “Should we be afraid of big clitorises?”
Presidential Bioethics Commission Comes to Penn
Synthetic life “not a novel thing” says Bioethics Commission witness.
The Substitute
Undergrads discuss bioethics with “substitute” teacher Amy Gutmann
Obama Taps Gutmann to Lead Bioethics Panel
Gutmann to head Obama bioethics panel
Budding Bioethicist Wins Gates Fellowship
Senior Alix Rogers wins Gates Fellowship.
The Logic of Torture
Heard on campus: Peter Singer on torture
Promise and Politics
While the bioethical debate over stem-cell research rages on, Penn scientists are making progress using adult-human and animal stem cells—and hoping for broader future support for studies using embryonic stem cells.
Hard to Die
What cases like Terry Schiavo’s can teach us.
Bad Medicine
Wrongful research
Who’s Minding the Brain?
As our ability to peek inside the brain—and to alter it—expands, the field of neuroethics is beginning to emerge (with the help of a few Penn Scholars) to study the implication for society and the individual.
Lawsuit by Prison Inmates Dismissed
University states: “It is now understood and agreed throughout the global scientific community that prisoners … cannot be considered appropriate candidates for any biomedical studies.”
Emergency Contraception and Catholic Theology
When patients’ rights and religious restrictions collide.
Glenn McGee on Brits, Yanks and … Male Birthing
Glenn McGee on his year studying bioethics in Britain.
Where Human Life Happens
Genetic testing and other technologies that offer a "window on the womb" are allowing parents to know more about their prospective offspring than ever before. Is that good?
Ethics for the Orthodoxy
The changing challenges of medical ethics got poked and prodded and poked some more at a recent conference co-sponsored by Penn's Center for Bioethics.