Medical explanations and lay conceptions of disease and illness in doctor-patient interaction [0.03%]
医患互动中疾病的医学解释与民间观念
Halvor Nordby
Halvor Nordby
Hilary Putnam's influential analysis of the 'division of linguistic labour' has a striking application in the area of doctor-patient interaction: patients typically think of themselves as consumers of technical medical terms in the sense th...
Philosophy on steroids: why the anti-doping position could use a little enhancement [0.03%]
哲学激增：反兴奋剂立场为何需要一点增强
Brent M Kious
Brent M Kious
There is currently much concern over the use of pharmaceuticals and other biomedical techniques to enhance athletic performance--a practice we might refer to as doping. Many justifications of anti-doping efforts claim that doping involves a...
Lars Oystein Ursin
Lars Oystein Ursin
What is privacy? What does privacy mean in relation to biobanking, in what way do the participants have an interest in privacy, (why) is there a right to privacy, and how should the privacy issue be regulated when it comes to biobank resear...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain
In an era in which certain arenas of scientific research have become increasingly controversial, this article critically evaluates what it means to "believe in science." Many scientists today seem to claim a sovereign right to no political ...
Adjudicating rights or analyzing interests: ethicists' role in the debate over conscience in clinical practice [0.03%]
裁决权利还是分析利益——伦理学家在临床实践中关于良知的争论中扮演的角色
Armand H Matheny Antommaria
Armand H Matheny Antommaria
The analysis of a dispute can focus on either interests, rights, or power. Commentators often frame the conflict over conscience in clinical practice as a dispute between a patient's right to legally available medical treatment and a clinic...
Adam La Caze
Adam La Caze
Most agree that, if all else is equal, patients should be provided with enough information about proposed medical therapies to allow them to make an informed decision about what, if anything, they wish to receive. This is the principle of i...
David Baronov
David Baronov
Though ubiquitous across the medical social sciences literature, the term "biomedicine" as an analytical concept remains remarkably slippery. It is argued here that this imprecision is due in part to the fact that biomedicine is comprised o...
Daniel P Sulmasy
Daniel P Sulmasy
The literature on conscience in medicine has paid little attention to what is meant by the word 'conscience.' This article distinguishes between retrospective and prospective conscience, distinguishes synderesis from conscience, and argues ...
Conscientious refusal by physicians and pharmacists: who is obligated to do what, and why? [0.03%]
医生和药剂师的谨慎拒绝：谁有义务做什么，为什么？
Dan W Brock
Dan W Brock
Some medical services have long generated deep moral controversy within the medical profession as well as in broader society and have led to conscientious refusals by some physicians to provide those services to their patients. More recentl...