How to Use bioethics in a Sentence

bioethics

noun, plural in form but singular in construction
  • Grady teaches medical ethics and is the chief of bioethics at the NIH.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Bhan, the bioethics expert, said an audit of the Bhopal trial would build confidence in the process.
    Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rivera leaned on her background in bioethics in making the decision.
    Ryan Faircloth, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • But his book doesn’t mire itself in the latest bioethics debates, most of which have become dizzyingly complex in the past few years.
    Nora Kenney, National Review, 22 July 2021
  • Johnathan Marks, who directs the bioethics program at Penn State, warns specifically against this.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The bill is part of a broader bioethics draft law under debate at the National Assembly.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has since become a vital case study in bioethics, but public awareness of its existence is spotty at best.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 May 2022
  • Dov Fox, the University of San Diego's director for health law policy and bioethics, agrees.
    CBS News, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But manufacturing is only half the battle, says Anant Bhan, a public health and bioethics researcher in Bhopal, India.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • Chen and Kahn, the head of the Johns Hopkins bioethics institute, are preparing a paper that will argue against challenge trials for diseases that lack treatment.
    Laura Parker, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • From a bioethics perspective, however, neither of these are problems.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Allocating scarce resources is a classic and much-discussed problem in bioethics.
    Yoshiko Iwai, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
  • My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good.
    Parker Crutchfield, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
  • This principle has been criticized within the applied ethical field of bioethics.
    Benjamin Rosman, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Clinical judgment should be untethered from the weight of other social contexts, bioethics experts said.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • As medical advances and breakthroughs became more commonplace, Jonsen said the need for bioethics and the obligation to consult frankly and forthrightly with patients increased.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Many sterilization laws were repealed by the 1970s, when the field of bioethics emerged and concepts such as informed consent became increasingly important, Bateman-House says.
    Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
  • For now though, any debate over whether companies should force employees to get the vaccine is premature, says Mark Navin, a professor of bioethics at Oakland University.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The link, however, was not fully explored, but a new essay in a bioethics blog takes us a step closer to understanding how that relationship may benefit the company.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Thorn was also a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Vatican entity on bioethics whose members are named by the pope.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2022
  • But experts in information systems and bioethics said the apps might not be launched in a timely enough fashion to make a significant difference and that a critical mass of users would be needed for full efficacy.
    Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Ames Dhai, a bioethics professor and member of the government’s vaccine advisory panel, told doctors on a recent webinar.
    New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Powell, who is a psychiatrist, chairs the bioethics committee of a hospital system that’s very different from Fins’s Upper East Side institution.
    Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University medical school, says that every industry, given the chance, will call itself essential.
    Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Seema Mohapatra, a law professor specializing in health care and bioethics, noted that many people in the West Bank and Gaza strip had not been vaccinated, raising equity concerns.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Craig Klugman, a bioethics professor at DePaul University, said an immunization card has been required to enter certain countries since 1969.
    Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In addition to interviewing Nora's four children, Caruba also spoke with palliative care doctors and nurses, a pastoral care director and a bioethics expert.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2020
  • In the best circumstances, decisions to ration health care, especially urgently, should be cooperative and clearly explained to the public, bioethics experts said.
    Ginger Christ, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2020
  • To transform the legacy of Tuskegee from mistrust to empowerment, the foundation awards scholarships every year to members of the next generation of descendants, with an emphasis on those pursuing studies in bioethics or health sciences.
    Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2021
  • At his urging, the recent experiment was reviewed beforehand not just by institutional review boards in the U.S. and China but also by three independent bioethics experts.
    Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021

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