HISTORY OF BIOETHICS

Recovering a universal bio-ethic

Michael Cook | 26 August 2017 | Comments

tags: bioethics, history of bioethics

Bioethics, the ethics of life, has bifurcated into medical ethics and environmental ethics. Can we reunite them?

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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations

Londa Schiebinger | 19 August 2017 | Comments

tags: experimentation, history of bioethics, history of medicine, informed consent, slavery

Doctors used slaves to test primitive cures for tropical diseases

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Harvard’s dark past as the “brain trust” of American eugenics

Michael Cook | 25 February 2016 | Comments

tags: eugenics, Harvard, history of bioethics

Even the Supreme Court justice who wrote, "three generations of imbeciles are enough" was a graduate and former law professor.

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Would Jenner’s smallpox experiment pass a research ethics committee?

Andrew George | 20 February 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, history of bioethics, history of medicine, informed consent

A single vulnerable subject exposed to a dread disease without animal trials -- it's not sounding good

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Katrina reopens debate about goals of bioethics

Michael Cook | 13 September 2005 | Comments

tags: bioethics, history of bioethics, Van Rensselaer Potter