A prominent philosopher and bioethics expert has quit the editorial board of The American Journal of Bioethics, calling into question the way articles are reviewed and the process for reviewing an ...

It is a commonplace to hold that bioethics research has become increasingly competitive with increased application pressures for grants, decreased funders and funds available. One would expect that ...

The field of bioethics is embroiled in a period of soul-searching, sparked by a startling career move by one of its biggest names. Glenn McGee is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of ...

At dinner after a recent meeting about ethics and genetics, a guest told me that he had never been to a conference of bioethicists before. The person next to him sat up straight, as if insulted, and ...

Bioethics has always been enmeshed in controversy. Arising out of gross abuses of the rights of human subjects in mid-20th-century scientific research, the field has grown to take on a variety of ...

Alan Petersen receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Bioethics has grown rapidly as a professional field since its emergence in the United States in around ...

Many academic bioethicists have financial ties to the very companies whose ethics they evaluate, but few policies govern how those ties are disclosed or managed to avoid conflicts of interest, a ...