The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage [0.03%]
罪恶：为何堕胎在道德上比自然流产更严重
Calum Miller
Calum Miller
Several recent papers have suggested that the pro-life view entails a radical, implausible thesis: that miscarriage is the biggest public health crisis in the history of our species and requires radical diversion of funds to combat. In this...
James Delaney
James Delaney
There is a significant debate over the moral status of human embryos. This debate has important implications for practices like abortion and IVF. Some argue that embryos have the same moral status as infants, children, and adults. However, ...
Suki Finn
Suki Finn
Consider the following two metaphysical questions about pregnancy: (1) When does a new organism of a certain kind start to exist? (2) What is the mereological and topological relationship between the pregnant organism and with what it is pr...
When Words Fail: "Miscarriage," Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm [0.03%]
词不达意：《流产》，指称歧义及心理伤害
Jessalyn A Bohn
Jessalyn A Bohn
Despite significant efforts to support those bereaved by intrauterine death, they remain susceptible to avoidable psychological harm such as disenfranchised grief, misplaced guilt, and emotional shock. This is in part because the words avai...
Andrew McGee,Dale Gardiner,Melanie Jansen
Andrew McGee
This paper provides a new rationale for equating brain death with the death of the human organism, in light of well-known criticisms made by Alan D Shewmon, Franklin Miller and Robert Truog and a number of other writers. We claim that these...
Uncertainty, Evidence, and the Integration of Machine Learning into Medical Practice [0.03%]
不确定性、证据以及机器学习在医疗实践中的应用整合
Thomas Grote,Philipp Berens
Thomas Grote
In light of recent advances in machine learning for medical applications, the automation of medical diagnostics is imminent. That said, before machine learning algorithms find their way into clinical practice, various problems at the episte...
Charles L Barzun
Charles L Barzun
Philosophers have debated whether the advance directives of Alzheimer's patients should be enforced, even if patients seem content in their demented state. The debate raises deep questions about the nature of human autonomy and personal ide...
Polly Mitchell,Alan Cribb,Vikki Entwistle
Polly Mitchell
Patient safety is a central aspect of healthcare quality, focusing on preventable, iatrogenic harm. Harm, in this context, is typically assumed to mean physical injury to patients, often caused by technical error. However, some contribution...
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims? [0.03%]
哲学失败与合理反对其观点：理性能否裁定形而上学或宗教主张？
Abram L Brummett
Abram L Brummett
Robert Card has proposed a reasonability view of conscientious objection that asks providers to state the reasons for their objection for evaluation and approval by a review board. Jason Marsh has challenged Card to provide explicit criteri...
Pathologizing Ugliness: A Conceptual Analysis of the Naturalist and Normativist Claims in "Aesthetic Pathology" [0.03%]
丑的病理化：“美学病理”中自然主义和规范主义论点的概念分析
Yves Saint James Aquino
Yves Saint James Aquino
Pathologizing ugliness refers to the use of disease language and medical processes to foster and support the claim that undesirable features are pathological conditions requiring medical or surgical intervention. Primarily situated in cosme...