How the Body Became Integrated: Cybernetics in the History of the Brain Death Debate [0.03%]
从脑死亡之争的历史看身体一体化的控制论机制
Paul Scherz
Paul Scherz
Although the term integration is central to the definition of brain death, there is little agreement on what it means. Through a genealogical analysis, this essay argues that there have been two primary ways of understanding integration in ...
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing [0.03%]
医疗领域的良心拒斥：为什么专业职责论缺乏说服力
Xavier Symons
Xavier Symons
The past decade has seen a burgeoning of scholarly interest in conscientious objection in health care. Specifically, several commentators have discussed the implications that conscientious objection has for the delivery of timely, efficient...
Eugène Bouchut's (1818-1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death [0.03%]
欧仁·布绍（1818-1891）对脑死亡概念的早期预测
Toni Saad
Toni Saad
The conventional historical account of the concept of brain death credits developments and discoveries of the twentieth century with its inception, emphasizing the role of technological developments and professional conferences, notably the...
Promoting Equity in Health Care through Human Flourishing, Justice, and Solidarity [0.03%]
通过人类全面发展、正义与团结促进医疗保健公平性
Fabrice Jotterand,Ryan Spellecy,Mary Homan et al.
Fabrice Jotterand et al.
In this article, we develop a non-rights-based argument based on beneficence (i.e., the welfare of individuals and communities) and justice as the disposition to act justly to promote equity in health care resource allocation. To this end, ...
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability [0.03%]
一种基于新兴概率的疾病、风险和界限的新方法
Patrick Daly
Patrick Daly
The status of risk factors and disease remains a disputed question in the theory and practice of medicine and healthcare, and so does the related question of delineating disease boundaries. I present a framework based on Bernard Lonergan's ...
Ian Tully
Ian Tully
In this paper, I address the question of whether it is ever permissible to grant a request for physician-aid-in-dying (PAD) from an individual suffering from treatment-resistant depression. I assume for the sake of argument that PAD is some...
Paul Walker,Terence Lovat
Paul Walker
Prompted by recent comments on the moral authority of dialogic consensus, we argue that consensus, specifically dialogic consensus, possesses a unique form of moral authority. Given our multicultural era and its plurality of values, we cont...
Joseph M Vukov
Joseph M Vukov
Discussion of the ethics of memory modification technologies (MMTs) has often focused on questions about the limits of their permissibility. In the current paper, I focus primarily on a different issue: when (if ever) is it rational to pref...
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation [0.03%]
头部、躯干、大脑和自我：关于全身移植的个人同一性伦理学
Ana Iltis
Ana Iltis
Plans to attempt what has been called a head transplant, a body transplant, and a head-to-body transplant in human beings raise numerous ethical, social, and legal questions, including the circumstances, if any, under which it would be ethi...
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment [0.03%]
如果大脑移植到其他地方，将会发生什么？头移植和个人具身性反思
Mark J Cherry
Mark J Cherry
Brain transplants have long been no more than the subject of science fiction and engaging thought experiments. That is no longer true. Neuroscientists have announced their intention to transplant the head of a volunteer onto a donated body....