A few years ago, academic leaders across Johns Hopkins saw an opportunity to take on critically important ethics issues—pushing the boundaries beyond the traditional health and science focus. A new ...

For almost a quarter-century, Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics has led national and international efforts to make sense of and find answers to new ethical issues arising from ...

Moral issues greet us each morning in the newspaper, confront us in the memos on our desks, nag us from our children's soccer fields, and bid us good night on the evening news. We are bombarded daily ...

Best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, at Princeton ...

Ethics is a fundamental part of everyday living and should guide our decisions, behaviors, and interactions in both personal and professional settings. Ethics involves determining what is right and ...

All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the ...

Science today is not the science of yesteryear. Findings are disseminated more quickly to audiences who may or may not be fully informed. The competitive pressure for publication, funding and ...