"More on respect for embryos and potentiality: does respect for embryos entail respect for in vitro embryos?" [0.03%]
关于尊重胚胎和潜在性的问题——尊重体内胚胎是否意味着也要尊重体外胚胎？
Stephen S Hanson
Stephen S Hanson
It is commonly assumed that persons who hold abortions to be generally impermissible must, for the same reasons, be opposed to embryonic stem cell research [ESR]. Yet a settled position against abortion does not necessarily direct one to re...
Paul Shapiro
Paul Shapiro
Some philosophers have argued that moral agency is characteristic of humans alone and that its absence from other animals justifies granting higher moral status to humans. However, human beings do not have a monopoly on moral agency, which ...
Colin Allen
Colin Allen
Ethicists have commonly appealed to science to bolster their arguments for elevating the moral status of nonhuman animals. I describe a framework within which I take many ethicists to be making such appeals. I focus on an apparent gap in th...
Stephen G Henry
Stephen G Henry
The evidence-based medicine movement advocates basing all medical decisions on certain types of quantitative research data and has stimulated protracted controversy and debate since its inception. Evidence-based medicine presupposes an inac...
Philip J Nickel
Philip J Nickel
This paper advances a new criterion of a vulnerable population in research. According to this criterion, there are consent-based and fairness-based reasons for calling a group vulnerable. The criterion is then applied to the case of people ...
Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson
A probabilistic explication is offered of equipoise and uncertainty in clinical trials. In order to be useful in the justification of clinical trials, equipoise has to be interpreted in terms of overlapping probability distributions of poss...
The embryo rescue case [0.03%]
胚胎救援案
S Matthew Liao
S Matthew Liao
In the debate regarding the moral status of human embryos, the Embryo Rescue Case has been used to suggest that embryos are not rightholders. This case is premised on the idea that in a situation where one has a choice between saving some n...
Private-sector research ethics: marketing or good conflicts management? The 2005 John J. Conley Lecture on Medical Ethics [0.03%]
私人部门的科研伦理：是营销手段还是良好的冲突管理？医学伦理John J.Conley讲座之二〇〇五年演讲
Rebecca Dresser
Rebecca Dresser
Pharmaceutical companies are major sponsors of biomedical research. Most scholars and policymakers focus their attention on government and academic oversight activities, however. In this article, I consider the role of pharmaceutical compan...
David C Thomasma,Renzo Pegoraro
David C Thomasma