Altruism and reward: motivational compatibility in deceased organ donation.

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：:Variation in decision-making about end-of-life care among ethnic groups creates clinical conflicts. In order to understand changes in preferences for end-of-life care among Japanese who immigrate to the United States, we conducted 18 focus groups with 122 participants: 65 English-speaking Japanese Americans, 29 Japane...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Bito S,Matsumura S,Singer MK,Meredith LS,Fukuhara S,Wenger NS

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In 2015, the Chinese pharmacologist, Tu Youyou, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of artemisinin. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was the source of inspiration for Tu's discovery and provides an opportunity for the world to know more about TCM as a source of medical knowledge ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Zheng WR,Li EC,Peng S,Wang XS

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:I argue that appeals to conscience do not constitute reasons for granting healthcare professionals exemptions from providing services they consider immoral (e.g. abortion). My argument is based on a comparison between a type of objection that many people think should be granted, i.e. to abortion, and one that most peo...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Giubilini A

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Respect for confidentiality is firmly established in codes of ethics and law. Medical care and the patients' trust depend on the ability of the doctors to maintain confidentiality. Without a guarantee of confidentiality, many patients would want to avoid seeking medical assistance The principle of confidentiality, how...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Papadodima SA,Spiliopoulou CA,Sakelliadis EI

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systems approach is a widely accepted method for addressing healthcare adverse events. However, when adverse events are behavioral in nature, such as self-injury or aggression, a systems approach can restrict patient autonomy. We propose guidelines for balancing safety and autonomy considerations when developing s...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Zhong R,Wasser T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intersexuality, particularly in the global South, remains an under-researched field of study. In my in-progress doctoral research project, I explore the cultural, social, and medical discourses that influence how key stakeholders such as healthcare providers make decisions about the sex and gender assignment of the in...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Das A

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：: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：:Several important issues are raised and illuminated in "Genetic Harm"; not least, in its detailed discussion of specific genetic disorders. In particular, it focuses on a type of disorder whose ill effects are not manifested at birth, but only at a later stage in life. The conclusion, with its significant implicatio...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Zohar NJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years philosophers and bioethicists have given considerable attention to the concept of care. Thus we have seen important work on questions such as: whether there is a uniquely female approach to ethics, whether ethics should be partial or impartial, and whether care must be supplemented by justice. Despite ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Boleyn-Fitzgerald P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a response to McLeod and Baylis (2007) who speculate on the dangers of requesting fresh 'spare' embryos from IVF patients for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, particularly when those embryos are good enough to be transferred back to the woman. They argue that these embryos should be frozen in...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Haimes E,Taylor K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper I discuss the view that the appropriate concept of competence is a decision-relative one: that a person may be competent to make one decision but not another. The argument that I present is that neither of the two competing theories supporting the decision-relative approach, internalism and externalism, ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Buller T

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:In democratic theory, "legitimacy" refers to the set of conditions that must be in place in order for the claims to authority of somebody to be deemed appropriate, and for their claims to compliance to be warranted. Though criteria of legitimacy have been elaborated in the context of democratic states, there is no rea...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Smith MJ,Weinstock D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper contends that a research ethics approach to the regulation of health data research is unhelpful in the era of population-level research and big data because it results in a primary focus on consent (meta-, broad, dynamic and/or specific consent). Two recent guidelines - the 2016 WMA Declaration of Taipei on...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Ballantyne A

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his article 'The substance view: A critique', Rob Lovering argues that the substance view -according to which a human person comes into existence at the moment of conception - leads to such implausible implications that this view should be abandoned. I responded to his reductio arguments in 'A critique of Rob Lover...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Friberg-Fernros H

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：: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