Andrew Alexandra,Seumas Miller
Andrew Alexandra
We have two aims in this paper. The first is negative: to demonstrate the problems in Bernard Gert's account of common morality, in particular as it applies to professional morality. The second is positive: to suggest a more satisfactory ex...
Palliative sedation until death: an approach from Kant's ethics of virtue [0.03%]
从康德美德伦理的角度看缓和安宁疗护中的镇静致死措施
Jeroen G J Hasselaar
Jeroen G J Hasselaar
This paper is concerned with the moral justification for palliative sedation until death. Palliative sedation involves the intentional lowering of consciousness for the relief of untreatable symptoms. The paper focuses on the moral problems...
Should we select for genetic moral enhancement? A thought experiment using the MoralKinder (MK+) haplotype [0.03%]
我们应该选择遗传道德增强吗？一个使用道德亲善者(MK+)基因型的的思想实验
Halley S Faust
Halley S Faust
By using preimplantation haplotype diagnosis, prospective parents are able to select embryos to implant through in vitro fertilization. If we knew that the naturally-occurring (but theoretical) MoralKinder (MK+) haplotype would predispose i...
Joseph-Matthew Mfutso-Bengo,Eva-Maria Mfutso-Bengo,Francis Masiye
Joseph-Matthew Mfutso-Bengo
HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns have been overshadowed by conflicting, competing, and contradictory views between those who support condom use as a last resort and those who are against it for fear of promoting sexual immorality. We argue tha...
A Dhai
A Dhai
Sub-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of the HIV epidemic, which is fueled by the many ethical, social, and political complexities that make up Africa. In turn, the pandemic has also caused many ethical, social, and political complexities that...
Godfrey B Tangwa
Godfrey B Tangwa
The central importance of reproduction in all human cultures has given rise to many methods and techniques of assisting reproduction or overcoming infertility. Such methods and techniques have achieved spectacular successes in the Western w...
Consenting to uncertainty: challenges for informed consent to disease screening--a case study [0.03%]
同意不确定性——疾病筛查知情同意的挑战——一个案例研究
Mark Greene,Suzanne M Smith
Mark Greene
This paper uses chronic beryllium disease as a case study to explore some of the challenges for decision-making and some of the problems for obtaining meaningful informed consent when the interpretation of screening results is complicated b...
Infant feeding and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: what lies beneath the dilemma? [0.03%]
东非婴儿喂养和艾滋病问题背后的原因是什么？
Faith E Fletcher,Paul Ndebele,Maureen C Kelley
Faith E Fletcher
The debate over how to best guide HIV-infected mothers in resource-poor settings on infant feeding is more than two decades old. Globally, breastfeeding is responsible for approximately 300,000 HIV infections per year, while at the same tim...
HIV/AIDS reduces the relevance of the principle of individual medical confidentiality among the Bantu people of Southern Africa [0.03%]
在南非班图族人中，艾滋病/艾滋病毒感染降低了个体医疗保密原则的适用性
Paul Ndebele,Joseph Mfutso-Bengo,Francis Masiye
Paul Ndebele
The principle of individual medical confidentiality is one of the moral principles that Africa inherited unquestioningly from the West as part of Western medicine. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa has reduced the relevance of the pr...
Routine third party disclosure of HIV results to identifiable sexual partners in Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
东非国家中艾滋病检测机构常规向高危人群通报艾滋病毒检测结果的现象研究
Francis Masiye,Robert Ssekubugu
Francis Masiye
The challenges of dealing with disclosure of HIV status cause frustration to health care providers and counselors. This frustration follows from the already known high risk to the third party on one hand and our ethical obligation to "respe...