Bioethics

Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field of study that engages in critical reflections on the practices and discourses of the life sciences, biotechnologies, and medical professions. Bioethics also seeks to scrutinize the moral boundaries drawn between different types of social acts in the life sciences and biomedicine. Along with the rapid emergence of difficult ethical dilemmas resulting from biomedical advances in the past 30 years (such as questions of the end of life decisions, reproductive medicine, transplantation, genetic testing, stem cell research, neurosciences, etc.) bioethics has developed a systematic analysis predominantly based on the perspectives of human rights and moral philosophy but also applying the methodologies of other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. See CEU's Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB).