Thomas S Huddle
Thomas S Huddle
Medical work is increasingly being subjected to objective assessment as those who pay for it seek to grasp the quality of that work and how best to improve it. While objective measures have a role in the assessment of health care, I argue t...
Floris Tomasini
Floris Tomasini
This article critically evaluates bettering human life. Because this involves lives that do not exist yet, the article investigates human eugenics and enhancement through the social prism of 'the imaginary' (defined 'as a set of assumptions...
Thinking across species--a critical bioethics approach to enhancement [0.03%]
跨越物种的思考——增强技术批判性生命伦理学方法
Richard Twine
Richard Twine
Drawing upon a concept of 'critical bioethics' [7] this paper takes a species-broad approach to the social and ethical aspects of enhancement. Critical Bioethics aims to foreground interdisciplinarity, socio-political dimensions, as well as...
Using a new analysis of the best interests standard to address cultural disputes: whose data, which values? [0.03%]
运用最佳利益标准的新分析来解决文化争议：数据与价值观的问题
Loretta M Kopelman,Arthur E Kopelman
Loretta M Kopelman
Clinicians sometimes disagree about how much to honor surrogates' deeply held cultural values or traditions when they differ from those of the host country. Such a controversy arose when parents requested a cultural accommodation to let the...
Neonatal euthanasia is unsupportable: the Groningen protocol should be abandoned [0.03%]
新生儿安乐死不可接受：应废除荷兰海牙方案
Alexander A Kon
Alexander A Kon
The growing support for voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) is evident in the recently approved Dutch Law on Termination of Life on Request. Indeed, the debate over legalized VAE has increased in European countries, the United States, and man...
Interests and neonates: there is more to the story than we explicitly acknowledge [0.03%]
利益与新生儿：存在比我们承认的更多的问题
D Micah Hester
D Micah Hester
Although there are many different moral arguments concerning the use of Best Interests in neonatal decision-making, there seems in practice a firm commitment to application of the concept. And yet, there is still little reflection given by ...
Nicolas Porta,Joel Frader
Nicolas Porta
In the twenty-first century, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-supporting measures commonly precede death in the neonatal intensive care unit without major ethical controversy. However, caregivers often feel much greater turmoil with r...
Kenneth Kipnis
Kenneth Kipnis
There is a broadly held view that neonatologists are ethically obligated to act to override parental nontreatment decisions for imperiled premature newborns when there is a reasonable chance of a good outcome. It is argued here that three t...
Annie Janvier,Karen Lynn Bauer,John D Lantos
Annie Janvier
Policies and position statements regarding decision-making for extremely premature babies exist in many countries and are often directive, focusing on parental choice and expected outcomes. These recommendations often state survival and han...
The moral status of the newborn and its implications for medical decision making [0.03%]
新生儿的道德地位及其对医疗决策的影响
Lainie Friedman Ross
Lainie Friedman Ross