E Cave,C Nichols
E Cave
There is an international consensus that medical research involving humans should only be undertaken in accordance with ethical principles. Paradoxically though, there is no consensus over the kinds of activities that constitute research an...
Malin Masterton,Mats G Hansson,Anna T Höglund et al.
Malin Masterton et al.
Queen Christina of Sweden was unconventional in her time, leading to hypotheses on her gender and possible hermaphroditic nature. If genetic analysis can substantiate the latter claim, could this bring the queen into disrepute 300 years aft...
Martin Gunderson
Martin Gunderson
It is tempting to argue that Kantian moral philosophy justifies prohibiting both human germ-line genetic engineering and non-therapeutic genetic engineering because they fail to respect human dignity. There are, however, good reasons for re...
Thomas Schramme
Thomas Schramme
In this paper, I want to scrutinise the value of utilising the concept of disease for a theory of distributive justice in health care. Although many people believe that the presence of a disease-related condition is a prerequisite of a just...
Mona Gupta
Mona Gupta
Evidence-based psychiatry (EBP) has arisen through the application of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to psychiatry. However, there may be aspects of psychiatric disorders and treatments that do not conform well to the assumptions of EBM. Thi...
Intuition and the junctures of judgment in decision procedures for clinical ethics [0.03%]
直觉与临床伦理决策过程中的判断节点
John K Davis
John K Davis
Moral decision procedures such as principlism or casuistry require intuition at certain junctures, as when a principle seems indeterminate, or principles conflict, or we wonder which paradigm case is most relevantly similar to the instant c...
Fredrik Svenaeus
Fredrik Svenaeus
Debates about the legitimacy of embryonic stem-cell research have largely focused on the type of ethical value that should be accorded to the human embryo in vitro. In this paper, I try to show that, to broaden the scope of these debates, o...
The structure of diagnosis in medicine: introduction to interrogative characteristics [0.03%]
医学诊断的结构：质疑特征介绍
Tomasz Mark Rzepiński
Tomasz Mark Rzepiński
The main purpose of this article is to present the methodological characteristics of a diagnostic process. A proposal is put forward to treat that process as a specific type of a research investigation. The research investigation can be rep...
The question of questions: what is a gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffiths & Stotz [0.03%]
问题的关键：基因是什么？评Rollston及Griffiths&Stotz文
Lenny Moss
Lenny Moss
If the question "What is a gene?'' proves to be worth asking it must be able to elicit an answer which both recognizes and address the reasons why the concept of the gene ever seemed to be something worth getting excited about in the first ...
Holmes Rolston rd
Holmes Rolston rd
Mendelian genes have become molecular genes, with increasing puzzlement about locating them, due to increasing complexity in genomic webworks. Genome science finds modular and conserved units of inheritance, identified as homologous genes. ...