Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc
Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc
The practice of force-feeding dangerously malnourished patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) raises a puzzle for clinical ethics. Force-feeding AN patients may seem justified to save their lives and to help them recover from a debilitating pa...
Kelsey Gipe
Kelsey Gipe
This project explores what it means to be a 'biofixture': a medical implant, transplant, or therapy that is morally analogous to a native body part. A motivating case is provided wherein a decision to deactivate a ventricular assist device ...
Baby Parts [0.03%]
婴儿身体部位
Rose Hershenov
Rose Hershenov
In her recent work, Elselijn Kingma applies four criteria for the individuation of an organism to determine whether the fetus is a part of or mereologically distinct from the mother. These criteria are: homeostasis, metabolic and functional...
Elizabeth Tropman
Elizabeth Tropman
According to the fair transaction view, consent is morally powerful when it occurs in the context of a larger consent transaction that is fair, rather than when one's consent is valid. This fair transaction view represents a novel approach ...
Freek J W Oude Maatman,Markus I Eronen
Freek J W Oude Maatman
The network approach to psychopathology promises (personalized) visualizations of the structure of mental disorders, in turn allowing for prediction of disorder development and identification of intervention targets. In this paper, we argue...
Max F Kramer
Max F Kramer
Distressing emotions and emotions that impede social functioning are standard components of psychiatric disorders, but the presence of a pathology requires underlying psychological dysfunction in addition. This article argues that, given a ...
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal [0.03%]
死亡判定中的多元主义论据：从实证数据到政策建议
Ivars Neiders,Vilius Dranseika
Ivars Neiders
The article defends the pluralist policy of death determination. According to this view, competent persons should be free to choose the criteria under which they should be diagnosed as dead. Our argument partly relies on the diagnosis of th...
Compassionate Understanding [0.03%]
慈悲的理解
Steve Matthews
Steve Matthews
The trauma and anguish professional people encounter in their work over time can lead to losses in competence and occupational burnout. However, the practice of detachment designed to avoid these outcomes can tip over into losses in the abi...
Michael Trimble,Pat Croskerry
Michael Trimble
In 1981, Edmund Pellegrino and David Thomasma published A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice. In this work, they situated the process of clinical judgment in the clinical encounter between an individual doctor and their patient. The en...
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm [0.03%]
人工智能在严重病情沟通中的应用：主动方法减轻伤害的影响
Elise C Tarbi,Brigitte N Durieux,Anne Kwok et al.
Elise C Tarbi et al.
Serious illness communication is at the core of palliative care, aligning care with patient preferences and improving patient and family experience. Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods have increasingly been applied to palliative care and ...