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.
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Most recent publications
- Managing risks for genetic conditions in donor sperm treatment: current practices in Belgian fertility clinics
- An invisible caregiver for visibly older parents: Experiences of (young) adults shared as comments to newspaper articles on advanced age parenthood
- Age‑based restrictions on reproductive care: discerning the arbitrary from the necessary
- Why we should (not) worry about generative AI in medical ethics teaching
- Revisiting the ought implies can dictum in light of disruptive medical innovation
- Heritable genome editing: ethical aspects of a developing domain