A WORLD LEADER IN BIOETHICS
The Center for Bioethics is a leader in bioethics research and its deployment in the ethical, efficient, and compassionate practice of the life sciences and medicine. The Center has become a world-renowned educational and research enterprise that employs over 20 full and part-time faculty with appointments in a number of University of Pennsylvania schools and departments including medicine, law, nursing, business, education, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religious studies, public policy and public health.

CENTER NEWS
July 27, 2008
Take a Course with Us!
The Department of Medical Ethics invites you to explore bioethics at Penn.  Consider taking a course with us if...

  • You are a Philadelphia-area University graduate student and would like to add some bioethics courses to your curriculum;
  • You are working in a bioethics-related field and we are offering a course that would enhance your career and/or matches your personal interests and if you want to see if this is the right program for you; or
  • You have a general interest in bioethics and want to learn more about the field.
For more information and a list of upcoming courses, visit the MBE Program website or download a flyer (PDF, 72KB).


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IN THE MEDIA
August 11, 2008
New possibilities for stem cell research
In an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, Jonathan Moreno and Rick Weiss (Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress) discuss the current ethics and politics of stem cell research.

As America struggles with such weighty issues as the war in Iraq, the foundering economy and the run-up to a historic presidential election, it may be difficult to recall that seven years ago this month the most wrenching issue facing the nation was human embryonic stem cell research.  Read more...
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