Bioethics / Medical Ethics

Medical ethics represents one of the deepest areas of involvement at our center. We live in an era of biomedicalization of life, where medical and biotechnological progress pose unprecedented ethical challenges. How should we negotiate the challenges medical technology has created in how we are born, treat our illnesses, and die? Who should guide us in the dilemmas posed by biotechnologies such as synthetic biology and genetics, our ability to micromanage our minds and moods with lifestyle drugs, or the integration of computer technologies into the human body? Our work in bioethics and medical ethics includes