Two experts in bioethics have curated a reading list of over 20 JSTOR sources on selected issues like: gene-editing, research and treatment, reproduction, disability, genetics, genealogy and race.

Many doctors embraced anesthesia, but critics in the medical community protested its use, giving rise to what's known as the “ether controversy.”

Patients called with no time for curiosity. They wanted stimulants, and they wanted them now. Then we could talk.

A recent paper provides evidence that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study reduced the life expectancy of African-American men.

Cyborgs might be closer in the future than you think.

The early promise of stem cells might finally be overcoming controversy and paying off.