Thomas Pogge has proposed a supplement to the standard patent regime whereby innovating companies would...

Rich countries that let tuberculosis go untreated among the world's poor will find the disease...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading infectious cause of infectious mortality worldwide and arguably the...

This article reviews ethically relevant history of tuberculosis and recent developments regarding extensively drug resistant...

More funding from wealthy countries is required to improve health care and the infectious disease...

This module examines ethical debates about the level of care that should be provided to...

Scenarios where the results of well-intentioned scientific research can be used for both good and...

Concerns over bioterrorism have prompted increased debate about whether or not “dual-use” life science discoveries...

This article reviews the history of smallpox and ethical issues that arise with its threat...

This article considers professionalization as a governance strategy for synthetic biology, reporting on social science...

In recent years there has been an enormous growth of interest in synthetic genomics and...

The treatment-enhancement distinction is difficult to make, and defenders of enhancement often base their case...

Suppose we accept prenatal diagnosis and the selective abortion of fetuses that test positive for...

This paper explains the ethical importance of infectious diseases, and reviews four major ethical issues...