Gerrit K Kimsma,Evert van Leeuwen
Gerrit K Kimsma
The approach to AIDS as a disease and a threat for social discrimination is used as an example to illustrate a conceptual thesis. This thesis is a claim that concerns what we call a medical issue or not, what is medicalised or needs to be d...
Patricia A Marshall
Patricia A Marshall
In the field of bioethics, scholars have begun to consider carefully the impact of structural issues on global population health, including socioeconomic and political factors influencing the disproportionate burden of disease throughout th...
"Suspended animation," my mother's wife and cultural discernment: considerations for genetic research among immigrants [0.03%]
“暂停动画”，我的母亲的妻子和文化鉴赏力——关于移民中的基因研究的思考
Judith Lee Kissell
Judith Lee Kissell
One of the most difficult contemporary issues facing the bioethics of clinical research is balancing the maintaining of a universality of ethics standards with a sensitivity to cultural issues and differences. The concept of "vulnerability"...
"Diseases and natural kinds" [0.03%]
疾病与自然种类
Daniel P Sulmasy
Daniel P Sulmasy
David Thomasma called for the development of a medical ethics based squarely on the philosophy of medicine. He recognized, however, that widespread anti-essentialism presented a significant barrier to such an approach. The aim of this artic...
Edmund D Pellegrino
Edmund D Pellegrino
Moral absolutes have little or no moral standing in our morally diverse modern society. Moral relativism is far more palatable for most ethicists and to the public at large. Yet, when pressed, every moral relativist will finally admit that ...
In defense of paternalism [0.03%]
论家长式作风的合理性
Erich H Loewy
Erich H Loewy
This paper argues that we have wrongly and not for the patient's benefit made a form of stark autonomy our highest value which allows physicians to slip out from under their basic duty which has always been to pursue a particular patient's ...
A personal recollection [0.03%]
一份个人回忆
Doris Thomasma
Doris Thomasma
Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
The inducement of meaningful work: a response to Anderson and Weijer [0.03%]
有意义的工作带来的激励——致Anderson和Weijer的回应
Terrence P McEachern
Terrence P McEachern
James A. Anderson and Charles Weijer take the wage payment model proposed by Neil Dickert and Christine Grady and extend the analogy of research participation to unskilled wage labor to include just working conditions. Although noble in its...