Devan Stahl
Devan Stahl
For centuries, philosophers and theologians debated the meaning of monstrous births. This article describes the debates that took place in the early modern period concerning the origins of monstrous births and examines how they might be rel...
"Marked" Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark [0.03%]
标记的身体，医学干预和勇敢的谦逊：纳撒尼尔·霍桑《胎记》中的精神身份形成
Keith Dow
Keith Dow
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark offers a sharp lens through which to examine power, purity, and personal identity. Scientist and spiritual idealist, Aylmer, is obsessed with "correcting" the only flaw he perceives in his wife Georgina, ...
Jason T Eberl
Jason T Eberl
Recent debate among bioethicists concerns the potential to enhance human beings' physical or cognitive capacities by means of genetic, pharmacological, cybernetic, or surgical interventions. Between "transhumanists," who argue for unreserve...
Kevin Timpe
Kevin Timpe
This paper argues that there are reasons to believe that there is no single concept or category which demarcates all individuals who have a disability from those individuals who do not. The paper begins by describing that I call 'a Unified ...
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity [0.03%]
来自神经活动的合成语音中的说话人责任问题
Stephen Rainey
Stephen Rainey
This article provides analysis of the mechanisms and outputs involved in language-use mediated by a neuroprosthetic device. It is motivated by the thought that users of speech neuroprostheses require sufficient control over what their devic...
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis [0.03%]
对Wakefield障碍概念的批评与改进：对有害功能分析法的完善
Emmanuel Smith
Emmanuel Smith
One way in which bioethicists can benefit the medical community is by clarifying the concept of disorder. Since insurance companies refer to the DSM for whether a patient should receive assistance, one must consider the consequences of one'...
Nathan Stout
Nathan Stout
The Substituted Judgment Standard (SJS) for surrogate decision-making dictates that a surrogate, when making medical decisions on behalf of an incapacitated patient, ought to make the decision that the patient would have made if the patient...
David Wendler
David Wendler
It is widely assumed that the use of deception in research is always inconsistent with obtaining valid consent. In addition, guidelines and regulations permit research without valid consent only when it poses no greater than minimal risk. C...
Gennady McCracken
Gennady McCracken
I argue that Alasdair MacIntyre has important resources to provide in the debate over the moral status of severely disabled people. In contrast, Gregory Poore suggests that MacIntyre's virtue theory cannot account for our responsibilities t...
Jeremy Weissman
Jeremy Weissman
Depending on our mode of reasoning-moral, prudential, instrumental, empirical, dialectical, and so on-we may come to vastly different conclusions on the nature of death and the appropriate orientation toward matters such as euthanasia or pr...