Wrongs, preferences, and the selection of children: a critique of Rebecca Bennett's argument against the principle of procreative beneficence.

abstract：:One of the most ambitious and sophisticated recent approaches to provide a theory of global health justice is Sridhar Venkatapuram's recent work. In this commentary, we first outline the core idea of Venkatapuram's approach to global health justice. We then argue that one of the most important elements of the account,...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kollar E,Laukötter S,Buyx A

更新日期：2016-01-01 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

abstract：:In this essay, we present three case studies which suggest that sometimes we are better off supporting a so-called irrational suicide, and that emotional or psychological distress--even if medically controllable--might justify a suicide. We underscore how complicated these decisions are and how murky a physician's mor...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Hardcastle VG,Stewart RW

更新日期：2002-09-01 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 our previous article on the question whether heroin addicts are able to give informed consent voluntarily to research on heroin-assisted treatment, we criticized the ongoing bioethical discussion of a flawed conceptualization of heroin addicts' options. As a participant in this discussion, Edmund Henden defends the...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Uusitalo S,Broers B

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Fulford has argued that (1) the medical concepts illness, disease and dysfunction are inescapably evaluative terms, (2) illness is conceptually prior to disease, and (3) a model conforming to (2) has greater explanatory power and practical utility than the conventional value-free medical model. This 'reverse' model em...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Parker M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, the perception of a bioterrorist threat has increased and created a demand on life scientists to consider the potential security implications of dual use research. This article examines a selection of proposed moral obligations for life scientists that have emerged to meet these concerns and the ex...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Kuhlau F,Eriksson S,Evers K,Höglund AT

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:A common strategy in bioethics is to posit a prima facie case in favour of one policy, and to then claim that the burden of proof (that this policy should be rejected) falls on those with opposing views. If the burden of proof is not met, it is claimed, then the policy in question should be accepted. This article illu...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Koplin JJ,Selgelid MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Respect for autonomy is problematic in relation to public health programmes such as vaccination, as the success of such programmes depends on widespread compliance. European countries have different policies for dealing with objectors to vaccination programmes. In some countries compliance is compulsory, while in othe...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Asveld L

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion paper continues the debate over risk-related standards of mental competence which appears in Bioethics 5. Dan Brock there defends an approach to mental competence in patients which defines it as being relative to differing standards, more or less rigorous depending on the degree of risk involved in pro...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Wilks I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work of a bioethicist carries distinctive responsibilities. Alongside those of any worker, there are responsibilities associated with giving guidance to practitioners, policy makers and the public. In addition, bioethicists are professionally exposed to and required to identify situations of moral trouble, and as ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Scully JL

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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 paper explores the legal and ethical concept of human subject research in order to determine whether genetic research with already available biosamples and data falls within this concept. Although the ethical concept seems to have evolved to recognize research based on data as human research, from a supranational...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Pormeister K

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:This article introduces questions in psychiatric ethics regarding the substantial field of qualitative and quantitative research into 'posttraumatic growth', which investigates how, after devastating experiences, individuals can come to feel that they have developed warmer relationships, increased spirituality, or a c...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Harbin A

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：:CIOMS has been criticised for not adequately consulting stakeholders about its revised ethical guidelines regarding medical research. Political and logistical issues that arise in democratic processes and open exchange of information probably contributed to this exclusion. What might CIOMS have done to be more inclusi...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Macpherson CC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been claimed in several places that the new genetic technologies allow humanity to achieve in a generation or two what might take natural selection hundreds of millennia in respect of the elimination of certain diseases and an increase in traits such as intelligence. More radically, it has been suggested that t...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Brassington I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ought we to improve our cognitive capacities beyond the normal human range? It might be a good idea to level out differences between peoples cognitive capacities; and some people's reaching beyond normal capacities may have some good side-effects on society at large (but also bad side-effects, of course). But is there...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Tännsjö T

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:In this paper we argue that sex-selective abortion (SSA) cannot be morally justified and that it should be prohibited. We present two main arguments against SSA. First, we present reasons why the decision for a woman to seek SSA in cultures with strong son-preference cannot be regarded as autonomous on either a narrow...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Rogers W,Ballantyne A,Draper H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Funders (located primarily in high-income countries) and high-income country researchers have historically dominated decision-making within global health research collaborations: from setting agendas and research design to determining how data are collected and analysed and what happens with findings and outputs. The ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Pratt B

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Much of the debate about the ethics of abortion has centered on whether the fetus is a person. In an attempt to sidestep this complex issue, I argue that, even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral. To arrive at this conclusion, I argue that giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome is immoral, and that if thi...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Hendricks P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler recommend helping people make better decisions by employing 'nudges', which they define as noncoercive methods of influencing choice for the better. Not surprisingly, healthcare practitioners and public policy professionals have become interested in whether nudges might be a promising ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Noggle R

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00