New York City | July 11-22, 2016
​Global Bioethics Initiative in partnership with New York Society for Ethical Culture invite students and professionals worldwide to attend the International Bioethics Summer School in Manhattan, New York City, 2016. Join us for this one-of-a-kind educational opportunity! The School Venue is The New York Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan, NYC. Click here to Apply Now! *Students may apply to attend the Summer Program as well as to intern at GBI. For information regarding …

By Kaitlyn Schaeffer
54-year-old Nicolas Bonnemaison has been convicted of killing a patient in a high-profile trial in France. He was charged with the deaths of seven elderly patients. He was found guilty on six of those counts. He received a two-year suspended sentence. Prosecutor Olivier Tcherkessof said that the doctor is “not a killer,” but he is still responsible for the deaths of his patients.
Bonnemaison’s conviction came amidst a heated …

By Ellen Arkfeld
A new heart transplant technique in Australia has the potential to increase the number of heart transplants by 30 per cent. This could be extremely beneficial to patients in Australia as the country has a shortage of organ donors: only 100 hearts are transplanted in Australia every year, and around 1,600 people are on organ transplant waitlists at any given time.
This technique enables hearts to be taken from …