Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging development in the digital transformation of healthcare. Unlike conventional generative AI, agentic AI systems can perform autonomous, goal-directed...

Die Zentrale Ethik-Kommission für Stammzellenforschung: Interdisziplinarität als Dialog zweier Welten   Die biomedizinische Forschung mit humanen embryonalen Stammzellen (hES-Zellen) bietet große Chan...

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2026)

Background Climate change increasingly affects population health and healthcare systems. While normative frameworks emphasize physicians’ societal role in climate protection, empirical evidence on how...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Long-distance academic invitations: a case for an air travel bioethics

The uptake of social science methods by bioethics significantly expanded its methodological spectrum, raising new theoretical, methodological, and practical questions. Recently, we are witnessing anot...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.

In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

Der Alpensalamander lebt ausschließlich in hohen Gebirgslagen. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde hat ihn zum Lurch des Jahres 2026 gekürt.

An international open access, peer-reviewed journal, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group, dedicated to publishing bioethics research and covering urgent global issues such as…

Nach dem Desaster um die Verfassungsrichterwahl kritisieren knapp 300 Rechtswissenschaftler die bisherige Diskussion und das Verfahren als 'unsachlich'.

In a recent paper,1 we proposed a Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4), building on earlier work by Rid and Wendler.2 The P4 is a hypothetical computer program that would, in the context of…

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 7, 2025)

The degradation of natural environments has an enormous impact on human health, which is further specified in the transdisciplinary research paradigm of planetary health. Bioethical debates have so...

Healthcare systems worldwide are large emitters of greenhouse gases and contribute to the worsening climate crisis. Attempts to reduce emissions are already being made at various levels of the healthc...

Ethik in der Medizin -

Mit Gas, mit Gift, mit Hunger: In ihrem Vernichtungswahn gegen psychisch Kranke und geistig Behinderte töteten die Nationalsozialisten in Hadamar fast 15.000 Menschen. 80 Jahre später sind die Erinner...

Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Es erläutert, wie das Zusammenwirken von Menschen, Tieren, Pflanzen und Maschinen zukünftig aussehen wird.

Informed consent in surgical settings requires not only the accurate communication of medical information but also the establishment of trust through empathic engagement. The use of large language mod...

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A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

The search for ethical guidance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially in healthcare and decision support, remains a crucial effort. So far, principles usually serve as...