Killing, letting die and moral perception: a reply to Grant Gillett.

abstract：:This paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta-ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is-ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact-value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： de Vries R,Gordijn B

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the dynamics behind, and ethical issues associated with, the phenomenon of drug resistance. Drug resistance is an important ethical issue partly because of the severe consequences likely to result from the increase in drug resistant pathogens if more is not done to control them. Drug resistance is a...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Selgelid MJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in reprogramming technology do not bypass the ethical challenge of embryo sacrifice. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) research has been and almost certainly will continue to be conducted within the context of embryo sacrifice. If human embryos have moral status as human beings, then participation in...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Brown M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progress of genetic knowledge magnifies existing ethical problems in medical genetics. Among the most troubling types of problems -- for medicine, patients, and the larger society -- are those of privacy and disclosure. Examples of the range of problems involving privacy and disclosure are: 1) disclosure of fals...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Wertz DC,Fletcher JC

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I argue for a conception of health as a person's ability to achieve or exercise a cluster of basic human activities. These basic activities are in turn specified through free-standing ethical reasoning about what constitutes a minimal conception of a human life with equal human dignity in the modern world. I arrive at...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Venkatapuram S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, Julian Savulescu wrote an article entitled 'Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children', in which he argued for the genetic selection of intelligence in children. That article contributes to a debate on whether genetic research on intelligence should be undertaken at all and, if so, shoul...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Birch K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western studies of national differences in pain have indicated that pain tolerance is higher in white than in Asian patients. The authors' clinical experiences in China seem to contradict this conclusion, and they have investigated the incidence or prevalence of some pain syndromes and have made comparisons with West...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Hu YH,Fang NY

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic misconception involves the failure of subjects either to understand or to incorporate into their own expectations the distinctions in nature and purpose of personally responsive therapeutic care, and the generic relationship between subject and investigator which is constrained by research protocols. Resea...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： McConville P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some bioethicists argue that conscientious objectors in health care should have to justify themselves, just as objectors in the military do. They should have to provide reasons that explain why they should be exempt from offering the services that they find offensive. There are two versions of this view in the literat...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kantymir L,McLeod C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many people have moral qualms about embryo research, feeling that embryos must deserve some kind of protection, if not so much as is afforded to persons. This paper will show that these qualms serve to camouflage motives that are really prudential, at the cost of also obscuring the real ethical issues at play in the d...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Shaw DM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong share similar perceptions with their Western counterparts regarding their capacity for autonomous decision-making, and secondarily whether Chinese parents underestimate their adolescent children's desire and capacity for autonomous decision-making. MET...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Hui E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morality of surrogate mothering is analyzed from a "consequentialist" framework which attempts to separate those consequences that invariably accompany a given act from those that accompany it only in particular circumstances. Critics of surrogacy argue that it transfers the burden and risk of pregnancy onto anot...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Purdy LM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Principle of Agency says that if it would be good for a state of affairs to occur "naturally," then it is permissable to take action to bring it about. This contradicts the views of some bioethicists, who object to euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and cloning, even though they acknowledge that the states of aff...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Rachels J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As bioethics emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and began to have enormous impacts on the practice of medicine and research--fuelled, by broad socio-political changes that gave rise to the struggles of women, African Americans, gay men and lesbians, and the antiauthoritarianism impulse that characterised the New Left in d...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Bayer R,Fairchild AL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inevitable need for rationing of healthcare has apparently presented the medical profession with the dilemma of choosing the lesser of two evils. Physicians appear to be obliged to adopt either an implausible version of traditional professional ethics or an equally problematic ethics of bedside rationing. The form...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Lauridsen S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an analysis of the limits of family authority to refuse life saving treatment for a family member (in the Chinese medical context). Family consent has long been praised and practiced in many non-Western cultural settings such as China and Japan. In contrast, the controversy of family refusal remains less...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Jin P,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the disciplines of literature and history and the contributions each makes to the discourse of bioethics. In each case I note the pedagogic ends that can be enacted though the appropriate use of the each of these disciplines in the sphere of medical education, particularly in the medical ethics cl...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Emmerich N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rebecca Bennett, in a recent paper dismissing Julian Savulescu's principle of procreative beneficence, advances both a negative and a positive thesis. The negative thesis holds that the principle's theoretical foundation - the notion of impersonal harm or non-person-affecting wrong - is indefensible. Therefore, there ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Herissone-Kelly P

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic organ diseases and the increasing demand for organ transplantation have become an important health care problem within the last few decades. Campaigns and regulations to encourage people to donate organs after death have not met with much success. This article discusses the subject from an Islamic perspective....

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Aksoy S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discussion on ethical issues, it is said, should not be confined to experts but should be extended to patients and local communities, because of the real need to engage stakeholders and non-stakeholders alike not only in carrying out any biomedical research project, but also in the drafting and legislation of bioe...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Manaloto RB,Alvarez AA,Alvarez MA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do biological relations ground responsibilities between biological fathers and their offspring? Few think biological relations ground either necessary or sufficient conditions for responsibility. Nevertheless, many think biological relations ground responsibility at least partially. Various scenarios, such as cases co...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Beverley J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is it ethical to pay patients for selecting cheaper medical treatments? The healthcare system in the United States is notoriously profligate, at least in part because when insurers foot the bill, patients have little incentive to avoid wasteful treatments. One familiar means for dealing with this problem is for insure...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Chappell RY

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to describe the scientific background to the current ethical and legislative debates about the generation and use of human stem cells, and to give an overview of the ethical issues underlying these debates. The ethical issues discussed are 1) stem cells and the status of the embryo, 2) wom...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Holm S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers what should be done about offers of organs for transplant that come with racist strings attached. Saving lives or improving their quality seem powerful reasons to accept the offer. Fairness, justice, and rejecting racism seem like powerful reasons against. This paper argues that conditional alloca...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Wilkinson TM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Nigeria, reproduction is highly valued, with many people desiring to produce a child 'in their own image and likeness'. Previously, aspiring parents often resorted to adoption. Today, the availability of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has provided options other than adoption for those desiring to procrea...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Egbokhare OO,Akintola SO

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical tourism (MT) can be conceptualized as the intentional pursuit of non-emergency surgical interventions by patients outside their nation of residence. Despite increasing popular interest in MT, the ethical issues associated with the practice have thus far been under-examined. MT has been associated with a range ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Snyder J,Crooks V,Johnston R,Kingsbury P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent articles have weighed in on the question of whether moral philosophers can be counted as moral experts. One argument denying this has been rejected by both sides of the debate. According to this argument, the extent of disagreement in modern moral philosophy prevents moral philosophers from being classi...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Cross B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incompetent patients need to have someone else make decisions on their behalf. According to the Substituted Judgment Standard the surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the patient would have made, had he or she been competent. Objections have been raised against this traditional construal of the sta...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Johansson M,Broström L

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore whether a Rawlsian approach might provide a guiding philosophy for the development of a healthcare system, in particular with regard to resolving tensions between different groups within it. We argue that an approach developed from some of Rawls' principles - using his 'veil of ignorance' and both the 'diff...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Fritz Z,Cox C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re-orienting ou...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Sherwin S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00