'Aching to be a boy': A preliminary analysis of gender assignment of intersex persons in India in a culture of son preference.

abstract：:Many people have moral qualms about embryo research, feeling that embryos must deserve some kind of protection, if not so much as is afforded to persons. This paper will show that these qualms serve to camouflage motives that are really prudential, at the cost of also obscuring the real ethical issues at play in the d...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Shaw DM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incompetent patients need to have someone else make decisions on their behalf. According to the Substituted Judgment Standard the surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the patient would have made, had he or she been competent. Objections have been raised against this traditional construal of the sta...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Johansson M,Broström L

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The ethical concept of responsiveness has largely been interpreted in the context of international clinical research. In light of the increasing conduct of externally funded health systems research (HSR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), this article examines how responsiveness might be understood for such ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Pratt B,Hyder AA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Erik Malmqvist defends the prohibition on kidney sales as a justifiable measure to protect individuals from harms they have not autonomously chosen. This appeal to 'group soft paternalism' requires that three conditions be met. It must be shown that some vendors will be harmed, that some will be subject to undue press...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Semrau L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jansen and Wall suggest a new way of defending hard paternalism in clinical research. They argue that non-therapeutic research exposing people to more than minimal risk should be banned on egalitarian grounds: in preventing poor decision-makers from making bad decisions, we will promote equality of welfare. We argue t...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Edwards SJ,Wilson J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well-studied phenomenon in women's sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproducti...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Lalonde D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current practices of identifying and treating small indolent thyroid cancers constitute an important but in some ways unusual form of overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis refers to diagnoses that generally harm rather than benefit patients, primarily because the diagnosed condition is not a harmful form of disease. Patients w...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Rogers WA,Craig WL,Entwistle VA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial premise in many recent arguments against the moral permissibility of surrogate motherhood arrangements is the claim that a woman cannot autonomously consent to gestating and relinquishing a child to another couple, because she cannot be fully informed about what her future emotional responses will be to the ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Oakley J

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In his article 'Why Moral Philosophers Are Not and Should Not Be Moral Experts' David Archard attempts to show that his argument from common-sense morality is more convincing than other competing arguments in the debate. I examine his main line of argumentation and eventually refute his main argument in my reply. ...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Gordon JS

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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：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：:A number of philosophers in recent times have employed arguments to show that there is no morally relevant difference between killing a patient and allowing that patient to die in those circumstances where the outcome is virtually identical and where death is preventable, at least for a significant time. From his per...

journal_title：Bioethics

authors： Thornton J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00