Interdisciplinary Bioethical Research

Bios Centre is a research institute set up to explore bioethical issues and critically examine current practices in health care. Our research aims to provide a coherent set of resources to help the public and health care professionals explore the various approaches to medical ethics and bioethics, including any consistencies or tensions that may arise between the approaches.  

Recent

  • BMA Guidance on VSED

    Dr Helen Watt has a post on the Journal of Medical Ethics blog on ‘Stopping eating and drinking as a means of suicide: BMA guidance on VSED.’

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  • Bioethics, War and Shared Humanity

    Bios Centre research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini has an article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry titled ‘Bioethics and Warfare:  Social Responsibility and the Recognition of Shared Humanity.’

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  • In Vitro Gametogenesis and Parental Respect

    Dr Helen Watt has a chapter in Revolutionizing Reproduction, an OUP collection edited by Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu and Tsutomu Sawai, entitled ‘Respecting Offspring; Identifying Parents: When Is In Vitro…

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