Ought we to enhance our cognitive capacities?

abstract：:In this article I consider the case of the surgical separation of conjoined twins resulting in the immediate and predictable death of the weaker one. The case was submitted to English law by the hospital, and the operation permitted against the parents' wishes. I consider the relationship between the legal decision an...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Cowley C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cloning has been simultaneously a running joke for massive worldwide publicity of fringe groups like the Raelians, and the core issue of an international movement at the United Nations in support of a treaty to ban the use of cloning techniques to produce a child (so called reproductive cloning). Yet, even thoug...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Shuster E

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethical aspects of placebo control in clinical trials have been extensively and controversially debated in the last decade. However, a thorough analytical comparison of the different existing international regulations, their terminologies and their ethical principles concerning placebo, is still missing. The centr...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Ehni HJ,Wiesing U

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health problems humanity faces. Research into new classes of antibiotics and new kinds of treatments - including risky experimental treatments such as phage therapy and vaccines - is an important part of improving our ability to treat infectious diseases. In ord...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Anomaly J,Savulescu J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the ethics and science literature surrounding uterus transplantation (UTx), emphasis is often placed on the extent to which UTx might improve upon, or offer additional benefits when compared to, existing 'treatment options' for women with absolute uterine factor infertility, such as adoption and gestational sur...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Guntram L,Williams NJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warnock, chair of Britain's Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, discusses the implications of the "artificial family" for children born through the use of reproductive technologies. She considers both treatment of infertility and the possible use of assisted reproduction to enable persons ot...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Warnock M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prominent international and national ethics commissions such as the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee rarely achieve anything remotely resembling gender equality, although local research and ethics committees are somewhat more egalitarian. Under-representation of women is particularly troubling when the subject...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:In the aftermath of allegations of the misuse of human eggs in the United States, questions are being raised about whether profitable reproductive services should continue to function in a free market under the aegis of physicians or should be regulated. Other countries in which reproductive technologies are employed ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Cohen CB

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Social work and bioethics are fields deeply committed to cross-disciplinary collaboration to do their respective work. While scholars and practitioners from both fields share a commitment to social justice and to respecting the dignity, integrity and the worth of all persons, the overlap between the fields, including ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Brazg T,Dotolo D,Blacksher E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers who note the increasing popularity of bioethics discussions often complain that the social sciences are poorly represented in discussions about things like abortion and stem-cell research. Critics say that bioethicists should be incorporating the methods and findings of social scientists, and should move tow...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Herrera C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mohr argues that coercive government policies in response to the AIDS crisis are unjustified and pose a serious threat to the rights of homosexuals. AIDS presently can be transmitted only to those whose actions place them at risk. Paternalistic state coercion is warranted only when a person has diminished capacity o...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Mohr RD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Living Donor List Exchange program, the donor makes his kidney available for allocation to patients on the postmortal waiting-list and receives in exchange a postmortal kidney, usually an O-kidney, to be given to the recipient he favours. The program can be a solution for a candidate donor who is unable to donate...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： den Hartogh G

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the end-of-life context, alleviation of the suffering of a distressed patient is usually seen as a, if not the, central goal for the medical personnel treating her. Yet it has also been argued that suffering should be seen as a part of good dying. More precisely, it has been maintained that alleviating a dying pati...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Varelius J

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:Don Marquis argues that abortion is morally wrong in most cases since it deprives the fetus of the value of its future. I criticize Marquis's argument for the modified conservative view by adopting an argumentative strategy in which I work within his basic account: if it is granted that his fundamental idea is sound, ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Card RF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biobanks are essential tools for furthering a broad range of medical research areas. However, despite the plethora of national and international laws and guidelines which apply to them, the access and sharing policies of biobanks are only sparsely addressed by regulatory bodies. The 'give and take' process of biosampl...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Colledge F,Elger B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following Bernheim,(1) we examine aspects of 'felicitometrics,'(2) the measurement of the 'quality' term in Quality of Life (QOL). Bernheim argued that overall QOL is best captured as the Gestalt(3) of a global self-assessment and suggested that the Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment (ACSA) approach, in which subj...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kowalski C,Pennell S,Vinokur A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erik Malmqvist defends the prohibition on kidney sales as a justifiable measure to protect individuals from harms they have not autonomously chosen. This appeal to 'group soft paternalism' requires that three conditions be met. It must be shown that some vendors will be harmed, that some will be subject to undue press...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Semrau L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In From Chance to Choice, Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler propose a new way of defending the moral significance of the distinction between genetic treatments and enhancements. They develop what they call a 'normal function model' of equality of opportunity and argue that it offers a 'limite...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Holtug N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In controlled human infection (CHI) studies, investigators deliberately infect healthy individuals with pathogens in order to study mechanisms of disease or obtain preliminary efficacy data on investigational vaccines and medicines. CHI studies offer a fast and cost-effective way of generating new scientific insights,...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Rid A,Roestenberg M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slippery slope arguments (SSAs) are used in a wide range of philosophical debates, but are often dismissed as empirically ill-founded and logically fallacious. In particular, leading authors put forward a meta-SSA which points to instances of empirically ill-founded and logically fallacious SSAs and to the alleged exi...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Fumagalli R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well-studied phenomenon in women's sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproducti...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Lalonde D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on qualitative research conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, among researchers and gate-keepers of health facilities in the province. Results suggest disparate but not irreconcilable perceptions of the social value of research in provincial health facilities. This study found that researchers...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Lutge E,Slack C,Wassenaar D

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary realities of global population movement increasingly bring to the fore the challenge of quality and equitable health provision across language barriers. While this linguistic challenge is not unique to immigration contexts and is likewise shared by health systems responding to the needs of aboriginal peop...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Peled Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article will explore whether the law should allow people with anorexia nervosa to refuse nutrition and hydration with special reference to the English decision in Re E (Medical Treatment: Anorexia). It argues that the judge in that case made the correct decision in holding that the patient, who suffered from seve...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Ip EC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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