Following a current pilot program, Georgetown University will introduce a three-week disability ethics module into “Intro to Ethics” course syllabi. A three-week disability ethics module is being ...

Disability is a global reality about which too few give thought until they, a family member, or friend experiences disability first-hand. As a result, people without immediate experience or regular ...

(RNS) — I co-wrote this month’s column with Meghan Schrader, academic enrichment assistant at the E4texas program at the University of Texas at Austin, who has served as an affiliate faculty member in ...

From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in the box-office success The Fault in Our Stars to the conjoined sisters at the circus in the Kennedy Center’s Side Show, ...

Beneath the bureaucracy that is making the NDIS harder to access lurks the long-established discourse of “deservingness” — the criteria that determine whether disabled people are seen as being worthy ...

Mariana Perera ’20 is a Fullbright Scholar and Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. How Living with a Family Member with Special ...

Paul Corby needs a new heart. On that there is no dispute. The same rare disease that killed his father at 27 is destroying his left ventricle. While there is no cure or surgery that might repair the ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University (Japan) have introduced a new philosophical framework—“conditional bad-difference view” (Conditional BDV)—to understanding ethically important features of ...

Precision medicine research (PMR) is gaining momentum across the health-care landscape in the United States. The 2015 announcement of the Precision Medicine Initiative accelerated this process, making ...

The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has officially enforced a revised code of ethics for all registered medical and dental practitioners and recognised institutions throughout the country, ...