The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work in practical bioethics. The Center's mission is to raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare. Its vision is to achieve a society in which the dignity and health of all people is advanced through ethical discourse and action. The Center is approved to offer post-baccalaureate training via distance learning by the Kansas Board of Regents and the Missouri Coordinating Board of Higher Education.

Sponsor of the Certificate Program in Clinical Ethics and Health Policy, The American Journal of Bioethics is a family of journals consisting of AJOB, AJOB Neuroscience, and AJOB Primary Research. For 10 years, AJOB has been publishing the leading research in the field of bioethics in a wide range of disciplines relevant to clinical ethics, health policy and health care. To learn more about these journals, visit http://bioethics.net.

Bioethics.net is the online home of The American Journal of Bioethics. The website is the world's number one source for bioethics news, commentary, and original research as ranked by Google with more than 500,000 unique visitors and 3 million site visits per month. Bioethics.net is also home to blog.bioethics.net, a 'Nature Top 50' science blog, written by the editors, staff and friends of The American Journal of Bioethics.