Professional ethics and collective professional autonomy: a conceptual analysis [0.03%]
职业道德与集体职业自治的概念分析
Asa Kasher
Asa Kasher
In the first section, it is argued that a professional activity involves systematic knowledge and proficiency, a form of continuous improvement of the related bodies of knowledge and proficiency, as well as two levels of understanding: a lo...
Yvonne Denier
Yvonne Denier
Public-health measures are very effective and efficient means of improving health, yet public health is either neglected by the literature or fraught with unease, mainly due to the combination of the aggregate-distributive tension with the ...
The saving power of biotechnology: on public perceptions of a field of technology [0.03%]
生物技术的存亡之道:一项技术领域的公众知觉研究
Lars Reuter
Lars Reuter
Biotechnology emerges in the nexus of academic, political and economic interests. With its strong reliance on a human individual capable of changing matter or organisms in accordance with anticipated goals, biotechnology is closely linked w...
Herman De Dijn
Herman De Dijn
The professionalisation of care has resulted in ever increasing specialisation, use of technical innovations and informatisation. This has had consequences for the level and way of involvement of the care provider vis-a-vis the patient. The...
Daniel Statman
Daniel Statman
The paper argues for two kinds of limitations on the right of parenthood. First, it claims that the right to parenthood does not entail a right to have as many children as one desires. This conclusion follows from the standard justification...
Harm as the price of liberty? Pre-implantation diagnosis and reproductive freedom [0.03%]
自由的代价是伤害吗?植入前诊断与生殖自由的关系探究
Hille Haker
Hille Haker
Reproductive autonomy is often used as an argument to offer assisted reproduction services to women and to continue research into improving this service. What is often overlooked, however, is the gendered and normative background of parenth...
Male or female, we will create them: the ethics of sex selection for non-medical reasons [0.03%]
不论男女:出于非医疗原因选择胎儿性别的伦理问题
David Heyd
David Heyd
The article examines the arguments for and against the practice of sex selection for non-medical reasons (e.g. parental preferences, family balancing, religious reasons) in light of the new technology of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (P...
On the relation between moral, legal and evaluative justifications of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) [0.03%]
论植入前遗传诊断的道德、法律和评价依据之间的关系
Georg Lohmann
Georg Lohmann
In Germany the question whether to uphold or repeal the judicial prohibition on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is being debated from quite different standpoints. This paper differentiates the major arguments according to their rea...
The person-affecting restriction, comparativism, and the moral status of potential people [0.03%]
关涉个人限制、比较主义和潜在人的道德地位
Gustaf Arrhenius
Gustaf Arrhenius
Traditional ethical theories have paradoxical implications in regards to questions concerning procreation and our moral duties to future people. It has been suggested that the crux of the problem resides in an all too 'impersonal' axiology ...
Wolfgang Lenzen
Wolfgang Lenzen
In order to answer the question raised in the title of my paper, I first put forward a general ethical theory, which is based on the traditional maxim neminem laedere. Second, I show how this principle in conjunction with certain assumption...