Trading with the waiting-list: the justice of living donor list exchange.

abstract：:In 2017 and 2019, two research teams claimed 'proof of principle' for artificial womb technology (AWT). AWT has long been a subject of speculation in bioethical literature, with broad consensus that it is a welcome development. Despite this, little attention is afforded to more immediate ethical problems in the develo...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Romanis EC

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Empirical studies in Muslim communities on organ donation and blood transfusion show that Muslim counsellors play an important role in the decision process. Despite the emerging importance of online English Sunni fatwas, these fatwas on organ donation and blood transfusion have hardly been studied, thus crea...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Van den Branden S,Broeckaert B

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper is a critique of Norman Daniels' and James Sabin's 'Accountability for Reasonableness' framework for making priority-setting decisions in health care in the face of widespread disagreement about values. Accountability for Reasonableness has been rapidly gaining worldwide acceptance, arguably to the point of...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Friedman A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common reason for giving research participants post-trial access (PTA) to the trial intervention appeals to reciprocity, the principle, stated most generally, that if one person benefits a second, the second should reciprocate: benefit the first in return. Many authors consider it obvious that reciprocity supports P...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Sofaer N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like any discipline, bioethics is a developing field of academic inquiry; and recent trends in scholarship have been towards more engagement with empirical research. This 'empirical turn' has provoked extensive debate over how such 'descriptive' research carried out in the social sciences contributes to the distinctiv...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Frith L

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Political communities across the world have recently sought to tackle rising rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal, by implementing coercive immunization programs, or by making existing immunization programs more coercive. Many academics and advocates of public health have applauded these policy developments, and the...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Navin MC,Attwell K

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Fatness stigma is pervasive. Being fat is widely regarded a bad thing, and fat persons suffer numerous social and material disadvantages in virtue of their weight being regarded that way. Despite the seriousness of this problem, it has received relatively little attention from analytic philosophers. In this paper, I s...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Nath R

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Germline genome editing is often disapproved of at the international policy level because of its possible threats to human dignity. However, from a critical perspective the relationship between this emerging technology and human dignity is relatively understudied. We explore the main principles that are referred to wh...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Segers S,Mertes H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beings are essentially vulnerable in the view that their existence qua humans is not given but constructed. This vulnerability received basic protection from the State, expressed in the form of the universal rights all citizens are meant to enjoy. In addition, many individuals fall prey to destitution and depriv...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kottow MH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that people have a right to have children is considered in relation to the question of whether society has an obligation to allocate resources to make clinical in vitro fertilization available, at least to married couples where the woman is infertile and the couple provides the ovum and sperm. The auth...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Uniacke S

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：: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：: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：:The choice to pursue fertility treatments is a complex one. In this paper I explore the issues of choice, agency, and gender as they relate to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). I argue that narrative approaches to bioethics such as those by Arthur Frank and Hilde Lindemann Nelson clarify judgments about auton...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kalbian AH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When applying moral principles to concrete cases, we assume a background shared understanding of the boundaries of the persons to whom the principles apply. In most contexts, this assumption is unproblematic. However, in end-of-life contexts, when patients are receiving 'artificial' life-support, judgments about where...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Jansen LA

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：: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：:This article reports the results of a survey, by mailed questionnaire, of the attitudes, values and practices of doctors in Singapore with respect to the doctor-patient relationship. Questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 475 doctors (261 general practitioners and 214 medical specialists), out of which 249 (52...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Chan D,Goh LG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The future development of bioethics has been discussed in a number of articles in recent years, principally with regard to the trend towards empirical studies. However, what is meant by empirical studies in this context and how it is to be used concretely have been subject to varying interpretations. The purpose of th...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Nikku N,Eriksson BE

更新日期：2006-08-01 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