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

  • Dead Donor Rule for organ donation

    Dr Anthony McCarthy, the director of Bios, has a response in the Journal of Medical Ethics to an article by Lawrence Masek critiquing the Dead Donor Rule as a requirement…

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  • Brain Death and Brainstem Death

    A Bios Centre seminar on ‘Brain Death and Brainstem Death: A Critical Update’ presented by D Alan Shewmon MD, Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of…

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  • Human ‘Bodyoids’

    Bios research associate Bruce Blackshaw and co-authors Daniel Rodger, Daniel Hurst and Christopher Bobier have an article in Philosophy & Technology titled ‘No Brain, No Pain, No Problem? The Case…

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