The conscience debate: resources for rapprochement from the problem's perceived source [0.03%]
良心之争：从问题的源头寻求和解之道
John J Hardt
John J Hardt
This article critically evaluates the conception of conscience underlying the debate about the proper place and role of conscience in the clinical encounter. It suggests that recovering a conception of conscience rooted in the Catholic mora...
Is conscientious objection incompatible with a physician's professional obligations? [0.03%]
谨慎回避是否与医师的职业义务相冲突？
Mark R Wicclair
Mark R Wicclair
In response to physicians who refuse to provide medical services that are contrary to their ethical and/or religious beliefs, it is sometimes asserted that anyone who is not willing to provide legally and professionally permitted medical se...
Kjetil Rommetveit
Kjetil Rommetveit
In this article I consider some central aspects of the naturalist philosophy of science and science and technology studies in dealing with the contested status of technoscience in medicine. Focusing on the concepts of realism and representa...
Principles versus procedures in making health care coverage decisions: addressing inevitable conflicts [0.03%]
医疗卫生决策中的原则与程序：应对不可避免的冲突
Lindsay M Sabik,Reidar K Lie
Lindsay M Sabik
It has been suggested that focusing on procedures when setting priorities for health care avoids the conflicts that arise when attempting to agree on principles. A prominent example of this approach is "accountability for reasonableness." W...
Priority setting in health care: on the relation between reasonable choices on the micro-level and the macro-level [0.03%]
医疗卫生中的优先次序选择：个人与整体的平衡点
Kristine Baerøe
Kristine Baerøe
There has been much discussion about how to obtain legitimacy at macro-level priority setting in health care by use of fair procedures, but how should we consider priority setting by individual clinicians or health workers at the micro-leve...
David A Jensen
David A Jensen
Can one consistently deny the permissibility of abortion while endorsing the killing of human embryos for the sake of stem cell research? The question is not trivial; for even if one accepts that abortion is prima facie wrong in all cases, ...
Carson Strong
Carson Strong
Some defenders of the view that there is a common morality have conceived such morality as being universal, in the sense of extending across all cultures and times. Those who deny the existence of such a common morality often argue that the...
Turning failures into successes: a methodological shortcoming in empirical research on surrogate accuracy [0.03%]
从失败到成功：实证研究替代指标准确性的方法缺陷
Mats Johansson,Linus Broström
Mats Johansson
Decision making for incompetent patients is a much-discussed topic in bioethics. According to one influential decision making standard, the substituted judgment standard, a surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the incomp...
Oliver Rauprich
Oliver Rauprich
The notion of common morality plays a prominent role in some of the most influential theories of biomedical ethics. Here, I focus on Beauchamp and Childress's models in the fourth and fifth edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics as well...
Andrew Ward
Andrew Ward
The goal of research in social epidemiology is not simply conceptual clarification or theoretical understanding, but more importantly it is to contribute to, and enhance the health of populations (and so, too, the people who constitute thos...