The global ethics corner: foundations, beliefs, and the teaching of biomedical and scientific ethics around the world.
Date
2017Author
Jakubowski, H
Xie, J
Kumar, Mitra A
Ghooi, R
Hosseinkhani, S
Alipour, M
Hajipour, B
Obiero, G
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The profound advances in the biomolecular sciences over the last decades have enabled similar advances in biomedicine. These advances have increasingly challenged our abilities to deploy them in an equitable and ethically acceptable manner. As such, it has become necessary and important to teach biomedical and scientific ethics to our students who will become the researchers, medical professionals, and global citizens of the future. As advances in the biosciences and medicine are made, developed, and used across the globe, our survival on an endangered planet requires global dialog and consensual action. To that end, a group of us from around the world have come together to describe the differing foundations of our ethical beliefs, and how ethical issues in biomedicine and in science are described and confronted in our countries. We hope to show the commonality in our beliefs and practices and to encourage readers from around the world to contribute to a continuing discussion through a new section of the journal, The Global Ethics Corner. © 2017 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017.
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Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2017 Apr 19. doi: 10.1002/bmb.21059. [Epub ahead of print]Publisher
University of Nairobi
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