"Irresponsible Not to Share Such Important Information": A Narrative of Responsibility That Underpins Familial Disclosure of Genetic Risk in Singapore [0.03%]
“不负责任才不分享此类重要信息”——新加坡家庭间分享遗传风险信息的责任叙事
Serene Ong
Serene Ong
Patients diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) are advised to disclose their diagnosis to at-risk relatives, as early knowledge of genetic risk allows relatives to manage their cholesterol levels. Debates in the bioethical lite...
Cristina Richie
Cristina Richie
Ethical Issues Related to the Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Such as Ozempic and Mounjaro: Impact on Individuals and Society at Large [0.03%]
关于使用GLP-1受体激动剂(如Ozempic和Mounjaro)的相关伦理问题:对个人和社会的影响
Francesca Minerva
Francesca Minerva
This paper explores the ethical implications of emerging weight-loss medications such as Semaglutide (Ozempic) and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro), analysing their therapeutic applications for obesity and potential use as enhancement drugs. These me...
Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities [0.03%]
阈限生物伦理学:分析新型生物实体的新方法
Michael Wee,Ilina Singh
Michael Wee
Novel biological entities such as cell lines and organoids do not typically fit into established conceptual categories, such as 'human' or 'nonhuman', 'gift' or 'property'. This makes developing robust ethical principles or policy solutions...
Critical Medical Ethics as an Approach to the Debate About Assisted Suicide by the Example of Germany [0.03%]
以德国为例的辅助自杀辩论中的批判医学伦理学观点
Meike Gerber
Meike Gerber
Recent literature has seen a growing endorsement of the so-called autonomy-only approach to assisted dying, which rejects suffering as a necessary criterion for access. Proponents argue that this model is most suitable to safeguard individu...
Jonathan Adams
Jonathan Adams
The paper explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine through a three-dimensional model of medical understanding, which encompasses understanding of disease (via the biomedical perspective), illness (through first-person...
Laura Y Cabrera,Nia Evereteze,Emily G Shank et al.
Laura Y Cabrera et al.
Neuroscience's accelerating advances have reached a pivotal point in the study of the human brain, including neurotechnologies capable of recording large amounts of data and acting with greater precision. However, the use of neurotechnology...
Voluntary Assisted Dying for Grief: Medicalisation, a Proposed Autonomy-Only Approach, and Lessons From Prepubescent Gender Care [0.03%]
悲伤辅助自杀:医学化、一种自主性方法的建议及青春期前性别医疗的启示
Tessa Jane Holzman
Tessa Jane Holzman
The recent addition of the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder has attracted criticism and concern about the undue medicalisation of grief and other existentially distressing yet normal life events. However, prolonged grief dis...
Considering Homeomorphic Equivalency in Engaging Islamic and Global Bioethical Traditions [0.03%]
考虑同胚等价以兼顾伊斯兰教传统与全球生命伦理学传统
Bilal Irfan,Ammaar Kazi,Idris Nawaz et al.
Bilal Irfan et al.
David Rodríguez-Arias,María Victoria Martínez-López,Luis Espericueta et al.
David Rodríguez-Arias et al.
Organ Donation after Medical Aid in Dying (OD-MAiD) is currently practised in four countries: Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, and Spain. While OD-MAiD shares some similarities with MAiD (absent the possibility of organ donation) and with ...