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Quill Kukla
Quill Kukla
Nethanel Lipshitz
Nethanel Lipshitz
In the last two decades it has become increasingly common to advocate for a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes. One reason in favor of such a ban is egalitarian: differences in the prevalence of smoking between socioeconomic groups go a...
Bridget Pratt
Bridget Pratt
Cities are struggling to balance the moral imperatives of sustainable development, with equity and social justice often ignored and negatively impacted by climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet, the nature of these impacts on social ...
Jada Wiggleton-Little,Craig Callender
Jada Wiggleton-Little
Autistic adults suffer from an alarmingly high and increasing unemployment rate. Many companies use pre-employment personality screening tests. These filters likely have disparate impacts on neurodivergent individuals, exacerbating this soc...
Alex John London,Patrick Bodilly Kane,Jonathan Kimmelman
Alex John London
The judgments of conscientious and informed experts play a central role in two elements of clinical equipoise. The first, and most widely discussed, element involves ensuring that no participant in a randomized trial is allocated to a level...
Mutual Aid Praxis Aligns Principles and Practice in Grassroots COVID-19 Responses Across the US [0.03%]
相互援助的实践使美国基层COVID-19应对的原则和实践保持一致
Nora Kenworthy,Emily Hops,Amy Hagopian
Nora Kenworthy
COVID-19 elicited a rapid emergence of new mutual aid networks in the US, but the practices of these networks are understudied. Using qualitative methods, we explored the empirical ethics guiding US-based mutual aid networks' activities, an...
Jake Earl
Jake Earl
Although researchers generally take great care to ensure that human subjects do not suffer very serious harms from their involvement in research, the situation is different for nonhuman animal subjects. Significant progress has been made in...
Suffering in Animal Research: The Need for Limits and the Possibility of Compensation [0.03%]
动物研究中的痛苦：对限制的需求及补偿的可能性
David Wendler
David Wendler
Guidelines and regulations for medical research recognize that the experiences of humans and animals both matter morally. They thus set a presumption against harming research subjects, whether humans or animals, and mandate that the harms s...
Reimagining Commitments to Patients and the Public in Professional Oaths [0.03%]
职业誓言中对病人和公众的承诺的重新构想
Laura Guidry-Grimes
Laura Guidry-Grimes
Robert Veatch argues that physician oaths should not be valued as substantive moral commitments, transformational rituals, or symbolic acts. Further, he insists that oath recitation in medical schools is immoral. I respond to Veatch's criti...