The power of the scientific enterprise presents multiple avenues for harnessing and increasingly controlling biological phenomena and instituting interventions in different areas of biomedicine (Af...

Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S83-S88, March‐April 2022.

Funding broadly connotes the notion of an institution and/or institutions making money and other resources available to individual researchers and organizations to accomplish specific projects. Whi...

Volume 24, Issue 10, October 2024, Page 103-106.

Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2020, Page 100-101.

Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2020, Page 38-41.

Mindful of how the history of bioethics has often been presented, we explore the background, contributions, and influence of Van Rensselaer Potter on the roots of bioethics. In the last few decades, dozens of papers have been written and published, including several doctoral theses and defenses on V. R. Potter‘s concept of bioethics. In those works, the context of the emergence of Potter’s bioethics has sometimes been suggested, but never analyzed thoroughly. We identify seven pillars of influence for Van Rensselaer (...) Potter’s bioethical credo, drawing on several facts from the rich cultural heritage of Wisconsin, where Potter had lived and worked for the most part of his life. (shrink)

In “IRB and Research Regulatory Delays Within the Military Health Care Setting: Do They Really Matter? And If So, Why and for Whom?,” Freed and colleagues (Freed et al. 2016) proposed four areas of...