Objection to Conscience: An Argument Against Conscience Exemptions in Healthcare.

abstract：:Peter Singer has argued that nothing done to a fetus before it acquires consciousness can harm it. At the same time, he concedes that a child can be harmed by something done to it when it was a non-conscious fetus. But this implies that the non-conscious fetus can be harmed. The mistake lies in thinking that, since ex...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Persson I

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Beauchamp and Childress' definition of autonomous decision-making includes the conditions of intentionality, understanding, and non-control. In genetics, however, a relational conception of autonomy has been increasingly recognized. This article aims to empirically assess aspects of social influence in genetic testing...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Zimmermann BM,Koné I,Shaw D,Elger B

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:In 1991, the Israeli Minister of Health and the Minister of Justice jointly nominated a commission to consider the subject of IVF in all its aspects. Heyd summarizes the commission's recommendations on the following issues as put forth in an interim report: access to fertility treatments, financing of treatment, couns...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Heyd D

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:Over the past 10 years, John Harris has made important contributions to thinking about distributive justice in health care. In his latest work, Harris controversially argues that clinicians should stop prioritising patients according to prognosis. He argues that the good or benefit of health care is providing each ind...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Savulescu J

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is an emerging form of prenatal genetic testing that provides information about the genetic constitution of a foetus without the risk of pregnancy loss as a direct result of the test procedure. As with other prenatal tests, information from NIPT can help to make a decision about te...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Deans Z,Clarke AJ,Newson AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:This paper considers Habermas' model of a post-secular political order in the light of the debate on male circumcision that arose in Germany after a court ruled that male circumcision was an unjustifiable act of bodily harm. Central to this model is the idea that religious reasons can only become effective in central ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Greve J

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:Are fetuses, at any stage of their development, capable of feeling pain? In his paper, "Locating the Beginnings of Pain," Stuart Derbyshire argues that they are not. We argue that he reaches this conclusion by way of conceptual confusion, a misreading of the available scientific data and the inclusion of irrelevant da...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Benatar D,Benatar M

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：:The concept of 'intimate citizenship' stresses the right of people to choose how they organize their personal lives and claim identities. Support and interest groups are seen as playing an important role in the pursuit of recognition for these intimate choices, by elaborating visible and positive cultures that invade ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： De Graeve K

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：: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：:The distinction between stakeholders and shareholders frequently employed in business ethics can illuminate challenges faced by a bioethics advisory panel. I use the distinction to reflect back on the work of an advisory panel on which I served, a panel on US transplant policy. The panel hearings were akin to a shareh...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Mongoven AM

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:In 'New Threats to Academic Freedom' Francesca Minerva argues that anonymity for the authors of controversial articles is a prerequisite for academic freedom in the Internet age. This argument draws its intellectual and emotional power from the author's account of the reaction to the on-line publication of ' After-bir...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Baker R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acts of helping others are often based on mixed motivations. Based on this claim, it has been argued that the use of a financial reward to incentivize organ donation is compatible with promoting altruism in organ donation. In its report Human Bodies: Donation for Medicine and Research, the Nuffield Council on Bioethic...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Voo TC

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:In this article, we argue that a critical examination of epistemological and anthropological presuppositions might lead to a more fruitful use of theory in clinical-ethical practice. We differentiate between two views of conceptualizing ethics, referring to Charles Taylors' two epistemological models: 'monological' ve...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Ohnsorge K,Widdershoven G

更新日期：2011-09-01 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