BIOETHICS INSTITUTE GHENT
The Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG) at Ghent University is based at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and is a subdivision of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences. It serves as a meeting point for academics teaching and conducting research on bioethical issues at any Ghent University department. Bioethics comprises ethical issues in biomedicine, health care and biology, and the broader issues of biotechnology.
We invite you to explore our website, where you will find more information about
- the Institute,
- our research, and
- publication activities.
background
Most recent publications
- Critical bioethics of space exploration: speculating beyond the “inevitable” future of humans in outer space
- Speculation as an argument: artificial placenta technology, clinical translation, and the ethical debate about the ethical debate
- An extended policy analysis of flemish universities’ intersectional commitments to sexually transgressive behaviour
- Definitions as boundaries: Bioethics, Palestine and climate catastrophes
- “It was a foregone conclusion”: a qualitative study of women’s experiences and meaning-making of later-in-life abortion in Belgium
- Managing risks for genetic conditions in donor sperm treatment: current practices in Belgian fertility clinics