Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: The Requirement of Justification, The Moral Threshold, and Military Refusals [0.03%]
医疗保健中的良心拒斥：正当理由的要求、道德门槛以及军事拒绝
Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki
A dogma accepted in many ethical, religious, and legal frameworks is that the reasons behind conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare cannot be evaluated or judged by any institution because conscience is individual and autonomous. This p...
Toni Alimi,Elizabeth L Antus,Alda Balthrop-Lewis et al.
Toni Alimi et al.
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID-19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implic...
M Cathleen Kaveny
M Cathleen Kaveny
This article considers the sort of diversity in perspective appropriate for a presidential commission on bioethics, and by implication, high-level governmental commissions on ethics more generally. It takes as its point of comparison the re...
On medicine, culture, and children's basic interests: a reply to three critics [0.03%]
关于医学、文化和儿童基本利益的一封答复信——针对三位评论人的回复
Richard B Miller
Richard B Miller
Margaret Mohrmann, Paul Lauritzen, and Sumner Twiss raise questions about my account of basic interests, liberal theory, and the challenges of multiculturalism as developed in Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine. Their questions point to ...
Sumner B Twiss
Sumner B Twiss
A critical examination of Richard Miller's position in his recent Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine on how to handle pediatric interventions in cases of cross-cultural conflict between parents and doctors with respect to treating young ...
Margaret E Mohrmann
Margaret E Mohrmann
This review both praises Richard Miller's book--a thoughtful, judicious, and comprehensive analysis of bioethics for the pediatric age group, notably the first effort worthy of the name--and points out the work still to be done in this area...
Esther D Reed
Esther D Reed
This paper applies aspects of Hugo Grotius's theologically informed theory of property to contemporary issues concerning access to the human DNA sequence and patenting practices. It argues that Christians who contribute to public debate in ...
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Recent years have witnessed a concern among theological bioethicists that secular debate has grown increasingly "thin," and that "thick" religious traditions and their spokespersons have been correspondingly excluded. This essay disputes th...
A T Nuyen
A T Nuyen
The philosophers' tendency to characterize euthanasia in terms of either the right or the responsibility to die is, in some ways, problematic. Stepping outside of the analytic framework, the author draws out the implications of the ethics o...