M Victoria Costa
M Victoria Costa
This paper examines the ways in which public health measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 impacted the freedom of those affected, understanding freedom as non-domination. It argues that, in the absence of effective vaccines, indi...
David G Kirchhoffer,Bridget Pratt
David G Kirchhoffer
Editorial
Bioethics. 2025 Jul;39(6):527-529. DOI:10.1111/bioe.70009 2025
Ethicists and the Gaza War [0.03%]
伦理学家与加沙战争
David DeGrazia
David DeGrazia
Do bioethicists have an obligation to speak out against such atrocities as Hamas' terrorism and Israel's war crimes? I will argue that they do have such an obligation, but not because they are bioethicists or even ethicists. Before driving ...
Max Drezga-Kleiminger,Dominic Wilkinson,Thomas Douglas et al.
Max Drezga-Kleiminger et al.
Medical predictions, for example, concerning a patient's likelihood of survival, can be used to efficiently allocate scarce resources. Predictions of patient behaviour can also be used-for example, patients on the liver transplant waiting l...
Ethical Expertise Before and After Medically Assisted Dying: The Informal and Formal Role of the Ethicist in the Netherlands [0.03%]
荷兰安乐死之前的伦理专业知识以及之后的正式和非正式伦理角色
Eva Asscher,Suzanne Metselaar
Eva Asscher
Although we have a long-standing and well-institutionalized practice of medical aid in dying (MAID) in the Netherlands, it is insufficiently clarified which goals ethicists should pursue in the context of assisted dying, and which competenc...
James Forsdyke
James Forsdyke
I shall initially be discussing the term 'disability' in accordance with common-sense intuition. The term itself is contested. But importantly for our discussion, on the mere-difference view, Barnes attempts to philosophically define disabi...
Anantharaman Muralidharan
Anantharaman Muralidharan
Recent calls to include religious bioethics on the table in policy and other public-facing contexts have been made on the grounds of respect. This paper argues that these same considerations of respect point to an obligation to exclude reli...
Exploring the Hypothetical Impact of Genetic Engineering on Ethnicity: An Analysis of a Large-Scale Data Set Retrieved From a Museal Setting [0.03%]
探索基因工程对民族影响的假设性分析——基于博物馆藏大规模数据集的一项研究
Niklas A Döbler,Alexander Pastukhov,Claus-Christian Carbon
Niklas A Döbler
Critics of human genetic engineering warn that if ever put into practice, this will diminish human diversity, especially regarding skin color. Nonetheless, given the solid and shameful causal link between skin color and discrimination, the ...
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco-ethical assessment [0.03%]
与时俱进：医疗保健的可持续性和生态伦理评估
Luca Valera
Luca Valera
This paper aims to rethink healthcare sustainability from an eco-ethical approach, mainly referring to van Rensselaer Potter's global bioethics and Arne Naess's ecosophy. In this sense, it seeks to address the ethical problem of allocating ...
Existentialism and My 'Postwolf' Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering [0.03%]
存在主义与我的“后狼时代”德国短毛肠専：基因工程时代的 authenticity
Donrich Thaldar
Donrich Thaldar
Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherent...