The UW's teaching program for bioethics is recognized as one of the nation's most vibrant and comprehensive such collection of courses. UW Medicine writer Brian Donohue spoke with several instructors to generate a seven-part series of Q&As. They give readers insight into the major dilemmas of yesteryear and today that confront doctors and researchers, patients and subjects.

• Medicine’s ethics code shaped by values, discoveries, laws, dollars – with Tom McCormick
• Comfort vs. function in ethical care of chronic pain – with David Tauben and Mark Sullivan
• Hospital ethics consultants mediate end-of-life care – with Denise Dudzinski
• Ethics and end-of-life care: Is it beneficial? Is it futile? – with Mark Tonelli and Nancy Jecker
• In vials and clinical trials, attention to ethical details – with Ben Wilfond
• Unlawful birth? New ethical tensions at life's start – with Doug Diekema
• Ethical medicine, Lesson 1: Recognize your viewpoint – with Wylie Burke