What Is Precision Psychotherapy? [0.03%]
Adrian Kind,Sascha Benjamin Fink,Henrik Walter
Adrian Kind
Precision medicine impacts virtually all medical specializations, including psychiatry. Although precision psychiatry, in general, is a flourishing area of research and debate, psychotherapy as one pillar of psychiatry receives little atten...
Dominic Wilkinson
Dominic Wilkinson
Gene therapies for severe genetic disease are often highly expensive. In deciding whether or when to provide them, one ethical consideration is the benefit of treatment relative to cost. Another and separate consideration is concern for med...
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen,Viki Lyngby Hvid,Søren Flinch Midtgaard et al.
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen et al.
One important objection to vaccination policies involving nudging or coercive measures such as restrictions on unvaccinated people's access to public spaces is that they are paternalistic. This objection is weaker than is often assumed. We ...
Emmanuel Smith,Paul Rezkalla
Emmanuel Smith
Biohacking love-that is, using drugs either to enhance or diminish lust, attraction, and/or attachment-is currently feasible (although imperfectly so). It is likely that in the future, scientists will develop drugs that target lust, attract...
Mental Illness: A Deviation from Phenomenological, Rather than Moral, Norms? [0.03%]
现象学规范而非道德规范的偏离吗？精神疾病到底是什么？
Adrian Downey
Adrian Downey
Anti-psychiatrists contend that psychiatric practice is fundamentally misguided: it inappropriately medicalises difference by equating it with illness, resultantly forcing unwarranted "treatment" on the "mentally ill." I explain why the mos...
Soo Jin Suzie Kim
Soo Jin Suzie Kim
The assumption that the justifiability of scientific belief depends exclusively on the relevant facts is a widely accepted orthodoxy both inside and outside of the scientific establishment. Drawing on the pragmatic and moral encroachment th...
Owen Goldin
Owen Goldin
Proponents of transhumanism argue for the use of medical technologies to transform human nature into something better. Those who are opposed to taking steps in the direction of transhumanism sometimes do so on the basis of an obligation to ...
The Case Against Legalizing Medically Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia in Islamic Regions [0.03%]
在伊斯兰地区反对安乐死或自愿主动安乐死的合法化
Sanwar Siraj,Ruiping Fan
Sanwar Siraj
This essay presents arguments against legalizing medically assisted suicide (MAS) or voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) in Islamic regions. MAS and VAE should be determined by particular regions based on their respective mainstream moral cul...
Martin J Fitzgerald
Martin J Fitzgerald
Human beings and their microbiomes are interrelated. Now what is the nature of their relation? In this paper, I claim that human beings have microbiomes as parts of themselves. In other words, rather than merely being casually associated wi...
Autotomized Tails, Ear Tufts, and Facial Reconstructions: Further Thoughts on a Functional Definition of Bodily Parthood [0.03%]
自动断尾、耳簇和面部重建：对身体部分的功能定义的进一步思考
Hilary Yancey
Hilary Yancey
In this article I argue for an Aristotelian hylomorphic view of bodily parthood on which parthood turns on functionality: something is part of a human being's body just in case it functions in the right way for the sake of that person; that...