Historically, the bioethics field has focused much attention on ethical issues raised by the latest advances in medical science. But what about everyday ethical issues that arise in hospitals and ...

Imagine the following scenarios: A surgeon prepares to amputate a patient’s foot to save his life, but the patient refuses ...

Referring to physicians as providers reduces the patient-physician relationship to a transaction and does not recognize differences in roles, responsibilities, and training among health care ...

Bilal Arshadullah ’24 was a 2023-’24 Health Care Ethics Intern and the inaugural recipient of the Fellowship in Health Equity and Innovation with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara ...

Yeseñia Sandoval is a biochemistry major with a minor in biotechnology and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her ...

PUBH 124 is being re-purposed as our Public Health Professional Ethics course and as a writing intensive. The department is proposing to re purpose the PUBH 124 Consumer Health course because consumer ...

Discussions about ethics are important in many aspects of health care but are especially critical when the health care includes genetic testing. There are several aspects of genetic testing that may ...

It is clear to us, as legal and bioethics scholars whose research often focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of emerging biotechnologies, that these directives will have profoundly ...