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Bioethics Advisory Committee

Recommended references

This page lists key publications and articles about bioethics in Singapore, including books, articles and research papers.

Last updated 22 September 2025

Monographs

Bioethics in Singapore: The Ethical Microcosm

Edited by John M Elliott, W Calvin Ho and Sylvia SN Lim
Published: July 2010

“This book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government. The editors and authors have an intimate knowledge of the working of the BAC, and the focus of the book includes the ways in which international forces have influenced the form and substance of bioethics in Singapore. Together, the authors offer a comparative account of the institutionalisation of biomedical research ethics in Singapore, considered in the wider context of international regulatory efforts. The book reviews the work of the BAC by placing it within the broader cultural, social and political discourses that have emerged in relation to the life sciences since the turn of the 21st century. This book is not primarily intended to be a retrospect or an appraisal of the contribution of the BAC, though this is one aspect of it. Rather, the main intention is to make a substantive contribution to the rapidly emerging field of bioethics. Ethical discussions in the book include consideration of stem cell research and cloning, genetics and research with human participants, and focus on likely future developments as well as the past.”

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Life Sciences: Law and Ethics - Recent Developments in Singapore

Edited by Terry Kaan and Edison T Liu
Jointly published by the Bioethics Advisory Committee and Singapore Academy of Law, November 2006

“An integral dimension of Singapore’s recent advances in biomedical research is the public focus and debate on the legal, ethical and social aspects of such research. In this collection of essays, eminent experts from Singapore in the fields of moral philosophy and ethics, sociology, law and the life sciences expound on the latest developments in the area of biomedical science and research from the perspectives of law, ethics and social impact.”

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Articles

Papers on specific issues.

Human-Animal Combinations for Biomedical Research

Donation of Human Eggs for Research

The Use of Personal Information in Biomedical Research

Stem Cell and Cloning

Human Tissue Research

Genetics

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