Abstract:
:Elizabeth Fenton has criticised an earlier article by the authors in which the claim was made that, by providing humankind with means of causing its destruction, the advance of science and technology has put it in a perilous condition that might take the development of genetic or biomedical techniques of moral enhancement to get out of. The development of these techniques would, however, require further scientific advances, thus forcing humanity deeper into the danger zone created by modern science. Fenton argues that the benefits of scientific advances are undervalued. The authors believe that the argument rather relies upon attaching a special weight to even very slight risks of major catastrophes, and attempt to vindicate this weighting.
journal_name
J Med Ethicsjournal_title
Journal of medical ethicsauthors
Persson I,Savulescu Jdoi
10.1136/jme.2010.036962subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-07-01 00:00:00pages
441-4issue
7eissn
0306-6800issn
1473-4257pii
jme.2010.036962journal_volume
37pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101987
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::To many in India and elsewhere, the life and thoughts of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are a source of inspiration. The idea of non-violence was pivotal in his thinking. In this context, Gandhi reflected upon the possibility of what is now called 'euthanasia' and 'assisted suicide'. So far, his views on these practices h...
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pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100268
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abstract::Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging of patients in a vegetative state have raised the possibility that such patients retain some degree of consciousness. In this paper, the ethical implications of such findings are outlined, in particular in relation to decisions about withdrawing life-sustainin...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2008.029165
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2005.014936
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Several distinct arguments conclude that terminally ill patients have a right to a medically assisted death; two are especially influential: the autonomy argument and the non-harm argument. Both have proven convincing to many, but not to those who view the duty not to kill as an (almost) absolute constraint. Some phil...
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2016-103575
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article reports on moral problems that were raised by medical students as the basis for an ethical case-conference in an obstetrics and gynaecology clerkship. After introducing the issue of teaching clinical ethics, the method of our case-conference is explained. Next, the variety of topics and related moral prob...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2007.023457
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Johnson and Stricker published an opinion piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics presenting their perspective on the 2008 agreement between the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Connecticut Attorney General with regard to the 2006 IDSA treatment guideline for Lyme disease. Their writings indicate t...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2009.032896
更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.24.5.336
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.26.6.469
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2003.002386
更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.26.1.37
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.10.3.138
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-106493
更新日期:2021-01-05 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101776
更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:This article describes a method for investigating attitudes towards prioritisation in medicine. SETTING:University of Kuopio, Finland. DESIGN:The method consisted of a set of 24 paired scenarios, which were imaginary patient cases, each containing three different ethical indicators randomly selected from a ...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.22.4.238
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 years following the publication of the protocol, neither the prediction that this would be the first step on a slippery sl...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101402
更新日期:2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To study the preferences of patients for information related to elective procedures. METHODS:A survey was carried out using a sample of 187 women. The majority of whom were on a low-income, who obtained obstetric or gynaecological services at St Joseph Regional Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while t...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2005.014274
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this article is to investigate the need for ethics support in Dutch healthcare institutions in order to understand why ethics support is often not used in practice and which factors are relevant in this context. METHODS:This study had a mixed methods design integrating quantitative and qualita...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1136/jme.2010.040626
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The death of Jesse Gelsinger in 1999 during a gene therapy trial raised many questions about the ethical review of medical research. Here, the author argues that the principle of justice is interpreted too narrowly and receives insufficient emphasis and that what we permit in terms of bodily invasion affects the value...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2003.006684
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not tak...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.29.5.297
更新日期:2003-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.17.4.196
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although an invasive medical intervention, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been regarded as an efficient and safe treatment of Parkinson's disease for the last 20 years. In terms of clinical ethics, it is worth asking whether the use of DBS may have unanticipated negative effects similar to those associated with othe...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100044
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1136/jme.2005.015545
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::As the law around surgical consent continues to evolve, surgeons and those in training risk being caught red-faced and defenceless. Despite repeated concerns regarding surgical consent being raised by the General Medical Council of the UK, how much is changing on the National Health Service shop floor? This report inv...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101931
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The progress of the discussion about the 'indicators of humanhood' is reviewed, along with several associated problems. It is argued that a more serious problem is posed by social attitudes about mental handicap. The author concludes that an uncritical use of criteria of humanhood may simply reinforce a morally unjust...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.15.2.90
更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Junior researchers can be abused and bullied by unscrupulous senior collaborators. This article describes the profile of a type of serial abuser, the White Bull, who uses his academic seniority to distort authorship credit and who disguises his parasitism with carefully premeditated deception. Further research into th...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2004.010553
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper examines one particular justification for the screening and termination of embryos/fetuses which possess genetic features known to cause disability. The particular case is that put forward in several places by John Harris. He argues that the obligation to prevent needless suffering justifies the prevention ...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.27.6.380
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Whenever some form of beneficent killing--for example, voluntary euthanasia--is advocated, the proposal is greeted with a flood of slippery-slope arguments warning of the dangers of a Nazi-style slide into genocide. This paper is an attempt systematically to evaluate arguments of this kind. Although there are slippery...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.19.3.169
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::For many people, living with genital herpes generates not just episodic physical discomfort but recurrent emotional distress, centred on concerns about how to live and love safely without passing infection to others. This article considers the evidence on herpes transmission, levels of sexual risk, when the law has in...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100894
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To explore British community pharmacists' views on PAS, including professional responsibility, personal beliefs, changes in law and ethical guidance. DESIGN:Postal questionnaire. SETTING:Great Britain. SUBJECTS:A random sample of 320 registered full-time community pharmacists. RESULTS:The survey yielded ...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.26.5.363
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00