Bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

research, education, and service provision have, since the 1970s, been focused in research centers or

Research institute A research institute, research centre, research center or research organization, is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often i ...

s. While the founding centers of bioethics scholarship are North American, notably

The Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy i ...

and the

Kennedy Institute of Ethics The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (also known as Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics) is one of the most prestigious bioethics institutes in the world. Located at Healy Hall, it was established at Georgetown University in 1971 as a bioethi ...

in the US, over subsequent decades many others such centers have emerged globally. Note that some of these centers have also been involved in hosting scholarly and professional journals (

List of bioethics journals This is a list of peer-reviewed academic journals covering the field of bioethics. Developed with reference to the 2015 list of ''Top 100 Bioethics Journals in the World'', and ''Where to publish and not to publish in bioethics''. A * '' Accou ...

) and participating in bioethics education ( List of masters programs in bioethics,

List of doctoral programs in bioethics This is a list of Doctorate degree programs ( PhD or professional doctorate) with formal specializations / concentrations in Bioethics, by country. These may be dedicated degrees in Bioethics, or specializations within other disciplinary programs, ...

Africa

Cameroon

* Institut Africain de Bioéthique

Nigeria

* Center for Bioethics and Research

Asia

China / Hong Kong

* Centre for Applied Ethics

Australasia

Australia

* Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture *

Centre for Human Bioethics The Centre for Human Bioethics is the previous name of a research and teaching centre at Monash University, based in the Faculty of Arts. The Centre is now known as the Monash Bioethics Centre. It focusses on the branch of ethics known as bioethics ...

* Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University

New Zealand

* Bioethics Centre, University of Otago * Eubios Ethics Institute

Europe

Belgium

* Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven * Centre de Bioéthique, Université de Namur

Bulgaria

* Bulgarian Center for Bioethics

France

* Centre d’Éthique Médicale--ETHICS 7446, Université Catholique de Lille

Germany

* Abteilung für Medizinische Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Ruhr-Universität * Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin * Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft * Institut für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik, Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim * Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Ludwig Maximillian Universität München * Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover * Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen * Zentrum für Ethik in der Medizin am Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus

Netherlands

* Ethics Institute, Utrecht University * Health Ethics and Society, Maastricht University

Norway

* Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo * Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, University of Bergen

Poland

* Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, Uniwersytet Warszawski * Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University

Portugal

* Institute of Bioethics, Catholic University of Portugal

Serbia

* Center for the Study of Bioethics

Slovak Republic

* Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics, Slovakia Medical University

Spain

* Institut Borja de Bioètica, Ramon Llull University * Instituto de Ética Clínica Francisco Vallés, Universidad Europea * Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho, Universitat de Barcelona

Sweden

* Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University

Switzerland

* Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics in Health Care * Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel * Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich

United Kingdom

* Anscombe Bioethics Centre * Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol * Centre for Bioethics & Emerging Technologies, St Mary’s University * Centre of Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire * Ethox Centre, University of Oxford *

Future of Humanity Institute The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford investigating big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects. It was founded in 2005 as part of the Faculty of Philosophy and the ...

* Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics * Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford

Middle East

Lebanon

* Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program, American University of Beirut

North America

Canada

* Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University * Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, University of St Michael's College, University of Toronto * Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University * Centre for Health Care Ethics, Lakehead University * Centre for Health Law Ethics and Policy, University of Ottawa * Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba * Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University * Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa * John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta * Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto * Centre for Clinical Ethics, Providence Healthcare * Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University * National Core for Neuroethics * Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, IRCM * W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia * York Collegium for Public Ethics, York University

United States

* Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University * Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College * Bioethics Center, Children's Mercy * Bioethics Center for Community Health And Genomic Equity, Case Western Reserve University * Bioethics Center, Hofstra University * Center for Bioethics, Cedarville University * Center for Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic * Center for Bioethics, Concordia University Wisconsin * Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School * Center for Bioethics, Indiana University * Center for Bioethics, New York University * Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota * Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina * Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado * Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University * Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, University of Mississippi Medical Center * Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin * Center for Bioethics and Social Science in Medicine, University of Michigan * Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Michigan State University * Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center * Center for Children, Law, and Ethics * Center for Ethics, Emory University * Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health & Science University *

Center for Genetics and Society The Center for Genetics and Society (CGS) is a non-profit information and public affairs organization, based in Berkeley, California, United States. It encourages responsible use and regulation of new human genetic and reproductive technologies. ...

* Center for Global Ethics & Politics, Ralph Bunche Institute * Center for Global Health Ethics, Duquesne University * Center for Health Ethics and Law, West Virginia University * Center for Health Humanities & Ethics, University Virginia * Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine * Center for Practical Bioethics * Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University * Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics * Center for Urban Bioethics, Temple University * Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington * Department of Medical History & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin * Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center * Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College *

* Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch * Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies *

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an interdisciplinary center serving the entire Johns Hopkins University and Health System. It is dedicated to the study of complex moral and policy issues in ...

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, founded in 1981, is a non-profit clinical medical ethics research institute based in the United States. Founded by its director, Mark Siegler, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics aims to ...

* Maguire Center for Ethics * Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics *

National Catholic Bioethics Center The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is a not-for-profit research center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after previous locations in St. Louis (1972–1985) and Boston (1985–2004).Tuskegee University#National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care *

Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics The Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, or YICB, is an academic research center based primarily in the study of biomedical ethics. It is partnered with the Hastings Center to sponsor the international Summer Bioethics Institute (SBI), a ...

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