BIOETHIC'S INSTITUTES

A bioethics institute is an organization dedicated to the study and analysis of ethical issues related to biology, medicine, and the life sciences. Below you will find some of the areas that a bioethics institute focuses on:

 

Areas of focus – Institutes of Bioethics explore ethical questions related to topics such as gene editing, assisted reproduction, end-of-life care, human and animal experimentation, public health policy, and more.

 

Research – Institutes of Bioethics sponsor academic research and scholarship in bioethics. They can fund projects, scholarships, journals, conferences, etc.

 

Education – Many bioethics institutes are attached to universities and offer curricula, courses, seminars and training in bioethics. This helps train future bioethicists.

 

Policy guidance – Institutes of bioethics aim to inform public policy by providing expertise and recommendations on legislation that intersects with ethical issues in science.

 

Public viewing – Through lectures, publications, media, and community engagement, bioethics institutes inform the public about the key debates and implications of advances in biomedicine and biotechnology.

 

Leadership – Institutes of bioethics are run by directors along with ethics boards composed of scholars from fields such as philosophy, law, medicine, and theology. Committees issue opinions and policy statements.

 

Below you can find the Bioethics Institutes by Country

BIOETHIC'S INSTITUTES

  1. Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM), Göttingen, Germany
  2. Bulgarian Center for Bioethics, Sofia, Bulgaria
  3. Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB), Budapest, Hungary
  4. Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), Copenhagen, Denmark
  5. Centre for Bioethics (CfB), Münster, Germany
  6. Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (CBMER), Leuven, Netherlands
  7. Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
  8. DCU Institute of Ethics, Dublin, Ireland
  9. Ethiek instituut, Univeristy of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
  10. Ethox Centre (ETHOX), Oxford, UK
  11. German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE), Bonn, Germany
  12. Institut fuer Ethik und Recht in der Medizin – Universitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
  13. Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Münster, Germany
  14. Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  15. Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  16. Institute Human, Ethics and Science (IMEW), Berlin, Germany
  17. Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE), Bonn, Germany
  18. Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm, Germany
  19. Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Bioethics (CRIB), Bruxelles, Belgium
  20. Interdsiciplinary Center of Medicine-Ethics-Law at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
  21. Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, UK
  22. The Zurich University Centre for Ethics (ZUCE), Zurich, Switzerland
  1. Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Deerfield, IL, USA
  2. Center for Bioethics, Univeristy of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  3. Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy,University of Miami, USA
  4. Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
  5. The Hastings Center, Washington, DC, USA 
  6. The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
  1. Joint Center for Bioethics, Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  2. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada