Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment argument.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Medical tourism (MT) can be conceptualized as the intentional pursuit of non-emergency surgical interventions by patients outside their nation of residence. Despite increasing popular interest in MT, the ethical issues associated with the practice have thus far been under-examined. MT has been associated with a range ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Snyder J,Crooks V,Johnston R,Kingsbury P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore whether a Rawlsian approach might provide a guiding philosophy for the development of a healthcare system, in particular with regard to resolving tensions between different groups within it. We argue that an approach developed from some of Rawls' principles - using his 'veil of ignorance' and both the 'diff...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Fritz Z,Cox C

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:This paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta-ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is-ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact-value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： de Vries R,Gordijn B

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:It has been argued that there can be no person-regarding reasons for practising genetic therapy, since it affects identity and causes to exist an individual who would not otherwise have existed. And there can be no such reasons for causing somebody to exist because existing cannot be better for an individual than neve...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Persson I

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative medicines? Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are medical products and services outside the mainstream of medical practice. But they are not just medicines (or supposed medicines) offered and provided for the prevention and treatment of illness. They are...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Macdonald C,Gavura S

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：: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：:If we have a duty not to infect others, how far does it go? This question is often discussed with respect to HIV transmission, but reflection on other diseases like influenza raises a number of interesting theoretical issues. I argue that a duty to avoid infection not only yields requirements for persons who know they...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Verweij M

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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