In an opinion piece for ABC Religion and Ethics, KIE Senior Research Scholar John Keown writes about ‘slippery slope’ concerns from laws permitting physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary euthanasia (VE). Read the full article here.
Senior Scholar John Keown will be contributing to the Vatican’s International Congress on Palliative Care, to be held Feb. 28 – March 1 in Rome.
Senior Scholars John Keown and Daniel Sulmasy each spoke at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop on Physician-Assisted Death in February.
Two Senior Research Scholars, John Keown and Daniel Sulmasy, have received the high honor of being inducted as Ordinary Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pontificia Academia Pro Vita).
Senior Research Scholar John Keown’s recent arguments against euthanasia appear in a prominent medical journal and a festschrift honoring his onetime mentor.
In preparation for a vote on legalizing physician-assisted in Washington, DC, Senior Research Scholar John Keown submitted a memorandum to City Councilmembers to brief them on important ethical dimensions of the issue.
A volume on natural law bioethics co-authored by Senior Research Scholar John Keown and the late Professor Alfonso Gomez-Lóbo wins two notable awards.
Opening remarks at the annual conference of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics paid homage to the KIE’s early support of the bioethics center where the conference was hosted.
Explore this year’s iteration of the KIE’s popular online Introduction to Bioethics with an overview of the scholars and topics on deck for 2016.
Senior Research Scholar John Keown speaks with leading international bioethics service BioEdge about a recently-completed book project.
Senior Research Scholar John Keown will be at the Vatican in March to address the annual meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life, of which he is a member.
Oxford University will award senior scholar John Keown ‘the ultimate degree in the common law world’ in a ceremony this June.
Scholar John Keown is interviewed on a recent publication: Reason, Morality, and Law, a feschrift on the philosophy of noted legal scholar John Finnis.
KIE scholar John Keown’s new book, The Law and the Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life is out soon with Oxford University Press.
KIE scholar John Keown was inducted into the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pontifice Academia Pro Vita) in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican in Rome on Thursday.
KIE scholar John Keown travels to the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago to speak at an international conference on palliative sedation and euthanasia.