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
- 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
- Should we use expanded carrier screening in gamete donation?
- An invisible caregiver for visibly older parents: Experiences of (young) adults shared as comments to newspaper articles on advanced age parenthood