Floris Tomasini
Floris Tomasini
Self-demand amputees are persons who need to have one or more healthy limbs or digits amputated to fit the way they see themselves. They want to rid themselves of a limb that they believe does not belong to their body-identity. The obsessiv...
Carlo Bellieni,Giuseppe Buonocore
Carlo Bellieni
Recent studies have revealed much higher risks of cerebral palsy and malformations in babies conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) than in babies conceived naturally. Here we question whether parents can legitimately accept this risk on...
Direct-to-consumer online genetic testing and the four principles: an analysis of the ethical issues [0.03%]
面向消费者的网上基因检测与四原则伦理分析
Katherine Wasson,E David Cook,Kathy Helzlsouer
Katherine Wasson
The development of genetic tests marketed and sold direct-to-consumers (DTC) via the internet raises moral concerns and debate about their appropriateness and ethical and clinical significance. These tests are offered for a wide range of di...
Katrina A Bramstedt
Katrina A Bramstedt
It is common knowledge that the supply of cadaveric organs does not meet demand. This shortage is often used as ethical argument against transplantation in Non-Resident Aliens; however, this fact in isolation does not present a comprehensiv...
William P Cheshire
William P Cheshire
Amy Michelle Debaets
Amy Michelle Debaets
Amy Michelle Debaets
Amy Michelle Debaets
Death of John Paul II and the basic human care for the sick and the dying [0.03%]
约翰·保罗二世去世与对病人和临终者的关爱问题
Juan R Velez G
Juan R Velez G
The death of Terri Schiavo by starvation and its sanction by some United States Courts indicates the alarming revival of the eugenics and euthanasia movement. From the legal sanction of physician-assisted suicide, the euthanasia movement no...
Ferdinand D Yates
Ferdinand D Yates
The failure of formal rights and equality in the clinic: a critique of bioethics [0.03%]
生物伦理学的失败：论医疗中的形式权利和平等缺失
Chloe G K Atkins
Chloe G K Atkins
For communities which espouse egalitarian principles, the hierarchical nature of care-giving relationships poses an extraordinary challenge. Patients' accounts of their illnesses and of their medical care capture the latent tension which ex...