Sarah Malanowski,Nicholas R Baima
Sarah Malanowski
Many transhumanists see their respective movement as being rooted in ancient ethical thought. However, this alleged connection between the contemporary transhumanist doctrine and the ethical theory of antiquity has come under attack. In thi...
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision [0.03%]
论及资源平等的国家资助生育治疗扩容政策之必要性
Giulia Cavaliere
Giulia Cavaliere
Assessing what counts as infertility has practical implications: access to (state-funded) fertility treatment is usually premised on meeting the criteria that constitute the chosen definition of infertility. In this paper, I argue that we s...
Anders Herlitz
Anders Herlitz
How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we should do. Health maximization and allocation-according-to-need are suggested as two...
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework [0.03%]
一种合理的关于人们可能被追究责任的健康相关行为解剖框架
Kristine Bærøe,Andreas Albertsen,Cornelius Cappelen
Kristine Bærøe
Should we let personal responsibility for health-related behavior influence the allocation of healthcare resources? In this paper, we clarify what it means to be responsible for an action. We rely on a crucial conceptual distinction between...
Priority for Organ Donors in the Allocation of Organs: Priority Rules from the Perspective of Equality of Opportunity [0.03%]
器官分配中的供者优先规则——机会平等的视角
Andreas Albertsen
Andreas Albertsen
Should priority in the allocation of organs be given to those who have previously donated or declared their willingness to do so? This article examines the Israeli priority rule in light of two prominent critiques of priority rules, pertain...
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges [0.03%]
健康研究中患者公众参与的民主合理性探索——理论与实践挑战
Lucy Frith
Lucy Frith
The literature on patient public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health research has grown significantly in the last decade, with a diverse range of definitions and topologies promulgated. This has led to disputes over what the central...
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer's Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease [0.03%]
阿尔茨海默病的疾病概念化变迁：一种病例研究
Maartje H N Schermer
Maartje H N Schermer
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) provides an excellent case study to investigate emerging conceptions of health, disease, pre-disease, and risk. Two scientific working groups have recently reconceptualized AD and created a new category of asymptoma...
Prevention of Disease and the Absent Body: A Phenomenological Approach to Periodontitis [0.03%]
现象学视角下的牙周炎与隐形患者关系研究
Dylan Rakhra,Māra Grīnfelde
Dylan Rakhra
A large part of the contemporary phenomenology of medicine has been devoted to accounts of health and illness, arguing that they contribute to the improvement of health care. Less focus has been paid to the issue of prevention of disease an...
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe [0.03%]
循证医学与机理证据：赞比亚Efavirenz rollout失败的案例分析
Andrew Park,Daniel Steel,Elicia Maine
Andrew Park
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has long deemphasized mechanistic reasoning and pathophysiological rationale in assessing the effectiveness of interventions. The EBM+ movement has challenged this stance, arguing that evidence of mechanisms an...
Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
The mainstream concept of death-the biological one-identifies death with the cessation of an organism. In this article, I challenge the mainstream position, showing that there is no single well-established concept of an organism and no univ...