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08 Jul 2025 / News

Institute for Biomedical Ethics Hosts 2025 Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit

Read about the highlights of the 2025 Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit, proudly hosted by the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel.

05 May 2025 / News, Research

Fostering Humanism in Surgery

This new book about the importance of humanism in surgical education and practice was co-edited by IBMB senior researcher Fabrice Jotterand.

31 Mar 2025 / News, Research

New article by PD Dr. Stuart McLennan published in "The Lancet Digital Health"

Weighing the benefits and risks of collecting race and ethnicity data in clinical settings for medical artificial intelligence

18 Mar 2025 / News

Video "Agequake in Prison"

Find out more about the challenges of an ageing prison population in our latest video, which was created as part of the “Aging in Prison” research project.

06 Feb 2025 / News, Research

New Article by Dr. Stuart McLennan in "Bioethics"

Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies

16 Jan 2025 / Research, Studies

New article by Dr. Lester Geneviève in The American Journal of Bioethics

ARIE: A Health Equity Framework for Public Health Interventions Informed by Critical Race Theory and Critical Gerontology

20 Dec 2024 / Doctorate/PhD

PhD Opportunity in Bioethics - BREETH

The PhD position is part of an exciting research project on the ethical and social implications of new plant breeding technologies funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the National Research Program NRP84.

20 Dec 2024 / Doctorate/PhD

PhD Opportunity in Biomedical Ethics - EQUIMED

The PhD position is part of an exciting new research project on the ethical and social implications of implantable device technologies, such as pacemakers or neural implants, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of…