Joshua Shaw
Joshua Shaw
There has been much discussion about the impact artificial wombs will have on debates in reproductive ethics. One area of discussion has been whether transferring fetuses to artificial wombs should be considered a form of birth, and, if so,...
Medicine and Moral Innocence [0.03%]
医学与道德无邪论
Kurt Blankschaen
Kurt Blankschaen
In 1990, Congress established the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHP). The program has since expanded to cover numerous treatments and support services. It is hard to overstate how transformative RWHP has been, but hundreds of thousands of o...
A Push into Despair: How Legalized Assisted Suicide Creates the Desire to Die [0.03%]
绝望中的推动：安乐死合法化是如何催生死亡愿望的
Benjamin Parviz
Benjamin Parviz
This essay argues that legalized assisted suicide is a temptation to despair that pushes those most vulnerable into despair, creating desire for the kind of death that such laws sanction. Laws that permit assisted suicide are messages that ...
Kirk Lougheed
Kirk Lougheed
Accounts of normative ethics that are based on the African conception of personhood tend to say that the goal of morality is to develop one's normative personhood (i.e., character), which is accomplished by exercising other-regarding virtue...
Jennifer Ryan Lockhart
Jennifer Ryan Lockhart
This article considers the question of the genetic enhancement of virtue from the standpoint of Aristotle's ethical theory. I argue that the direct genetic enhancement of Aristotelian virtue would not be possible, since virtue requires habi...
Ana S Iltis,Carmen Harrell,Haley Tyrell et al.
Ana S Iltis et al.
Moral bioenhancement refers to the use of biological or technological interventions to make a moral agent better as a moral agent. The literature often fails to acknowledge critical underlying assumptions and differences in how the term is ...
Neurobiological Determinism versus Human Freedom: Competing Explanatory Models and the Hope for Moral Enhancement [0.03%]
神经生物学决定论与人的自由意志：相互竞争的解释模型以及道德增强的希望
Mark J Cherry
Mark J Cherry
The "neuromoral" medical explanatory model of antisocial or inadequately prosocial behavior posits a biological cause for what advocates judge to be immoral activity. Proponents of this model hold that immoral behavior is the result of a dy...
Nicholas Colgrove
Nicholas Colgrove
Zygotes are persisting organisms. That is, zygotes are organisms and most born human beings are identical to the zygotes from which they originated. I defend these claims against recent critiques. Chunghyoung Lee, for example, argues that f...
Ethical Examination of Genetic Enhancement from the Perspective of Confucian Human Dignity [0.03%]
儒家人的尊严视角下的基因增强伦理审查
Jianhui Li,Yaming Li
Jianhui Li
With rapid advances in gene editing technology, the ethics of genetic enhancement has emerged as a prominent issue attracting scholarly attention. Many scholars express concern that genetic enhancement facilitated by gene editing may infrin...
Reproducing Anachronism: Ageing, Fertility and Inequality in Reproductive Governance [0.03%]
生殖政策中的时代错乱：人口老龄化、生育率与不平等
Giulia Cavaliere,James Rupert Fletcher
Giulia Cavaliere
In this paper, we examine the governance of fertility services and situate our analysis in the broader context of reproductive ageing. Most countries restrict access to these services in reference to the age of people (especially women) who...