Lynn A Jansen,Steven Wall
Lynn A Jansen
The ethical standards that regulate clinical research have multiple rationales. Among them is the need to protect potential subjects from making imprudent decisions, which extends beyond the soft paternalistic concern to protect people from...
Pat McConville
Pat McConville
Therapeutic misconception involves the failure of subjects either to understand or to incorporate into their own expectations the distinctions in nature and purpose of personally responsive therapeutic care, and the generic relationship bet...
The indispensability of labelled groups to vulnerability in bioethics [0.03%]
论生物伦理学中易受伤害性问题的标签群体之不可或缺性
Adrian Kwek
Adrian Kwek
Regarding the determination of vulnerability, the bioethics community has univocally jettisoned "labelled groups", groups whose membership confers a context-invariant "vulnerable" status to their members. While the usual reasons against the...
When doctors deny drugs: Sexism and contraception access in the medical field [0.03%]
当医生拒绝开药时：医学界内的性别歧视与避孕途径受限问题
J B Delston
J B Delston
Politicians, employers, courts, and health insurance companies are often discussed as problematically preventing access to birth control. However, doctors have more direct control over women's health and quietly have been much more effectiv...
Govert den Hartogh
Govert den Hartogh
I argue that the concept 'physician-assisted suicide' covers two procedures that should be distinguished: giving someone access to humane means to end his own life, and taking co-responsibility for the safe and effective execution of that p...
Shame and HIV: Strategies for addressing the negative impact shame has on public health and diagnosis and treatment of HIV [0.03%]
耻辱与艾滋病：减少耻辱的负面影响以改善公共卫生及艾滋病诊疗的方法研究
Phil Hutchinson,Rageshri Dhairyawan
Phil Hutchinson
There are five ways in which shame might negatively impact upon our attempts to combat and treat HIV. Shame can prevent an individual from disclosing all the relevant facts about their sexual history to the clinician. Shame can be a motivat...
Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders
New reproductive technologies allow parents some choice over their children. Various moral principles have been suggested to regulate such choices. This article starts from a discussion of Julian Savulescu's Principle of Procreative Benefic...
David Wendler
David Wendler
Identifying which subjects are vulnerable, and implementing safeguards to protect them, is widely regarded as essential to clinical research. Commentators have endorsed a number of responses to these challenges and have thereby made signifi...
Ruth Chadwick
Ruth Chadwick
Editorial
Bioethics. 2017 Sep;31(7):494. DOI:10.1111/bioe.12392 2017
Euthanasia and cryothanasia [0.03%]
安乐死与低温安乐死
Francesca Minerva,Anders Sandberg
Francesca Minerva
In this article we discuss the moral and legal aspects of causing the death of a terminal patient in the hope of extending their life in the future. We call this theoretical procedure cryothanasia. We argue that administering cryothanasia i...