Why Nonidentity Is Not a Problem: Parfitian Defence of Clinicians Refusing to Provide Assisted Reproductive Technologies [0.03%]
为何非同一性不是问题——对临床医生拒绝提供辅助生殖技术的帕菲特式辩护
Georgina Hall
Georgina Hall
An accepted argument in reproductive rights literature holds that the welfare of future children is irrelevant in the provision of assisted reproductive technology (ART). A foundational philosophical concept underpinning such dismissal appe...
Christopher Boorse
Christopher Boorse
In five related essays, Mary Jean Walker and Wendy Rogers, joined in one essay by Jenny Doust, defend various theses about the concept of disease. First, they argue "disease" is a cluster concept, not a "classically structured" one definabl...
Walter E Block
Walter E Block
Dominiak and Wysocki (2023, hence, DW) offer a series of criticisms of my analysis of abortion: evictionism, which is a compromise position between the pro-life and the pro-choice viewpoints. The present article is a response to DW. ...
Ana S Iltis,Briana Denny
Ana S Iltis
In the United States, individuals who authorize organ donation through various mechanisms make a legally binding decision that only they may revoke. When a person who has given first-person authorization for organ donation becomes eligible ...
Destroy, Let Die, or Grow the Embryo Further? Puzzles Raised by the 14-Day Rule and Other Time Limits for Embryo Research [0.03%]
摧毁、阻止发育还是继续培养？14天规则及其他胚胎研究的时间限制引发的困惑
Helen Watt
Helen Watt
Supporting the 14-day rule or other embryo research time limits raises puzzling questions for those wishing to protect older embryos (or indeed, more developed human subjects). What are, or should be, our more immediate aims in setting or i...
The Contradictions in the Criteria for Diagnosing Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome as Reflecting Some of the Philosophical Debates about the Threshold between the Normal and the Pathological [0.03%]
关于正常与病理之间的界限的一些哲学争论反映在高移动性血管型埃勒斯-丹洛斯综合征诊断标准的矛盾中
Mar Rosàs Tosas
Mar Rosàs Tosas
The arrival of some diagnoses tends to bring about relief because it validates suffering and grants access to social legitimization, medical resources, and economic aid. This is the case of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a pathology with...
Hypochondriacal Doubt: How It Devours Itself Despite Its Seeming Consistence [0.03%]
疑病症式的怀疑：如何在看似一致的情况下自我消耗
José María Ariso
José María Ariso
Hypochondriasis-currently split into the "somatic symptom disorder" and the "illness anxiety disorder" diagnoses-is characterized by the patient's conviction that minor symptoms are signs of a severe illness, even after undertaking medical ...
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards
This essay analyzes the morality of assisted dying. To do this, it is necessary to recognize that assisted dying is the outworking of a larger process. This process unavoidably begins with the key moral conception of human dignity. Emphasis...
Rina Tzinman
Rina Tzinman
The standard view in medical practice is that patients have to be in an appropriate state of mind to count as autonomous. For example, according to the Macarthur Competency Assessment Tool for Treatment patients need to be able to: (1) comm...
Towards Excellence: Virtue and the Principle of Autonomy in Informed Consent for Clinical Trials [0.03%]
美德与自主原则在临床试验知情同意中的作用：迈向卓越
Alexander Montes
Alexander Montes
In this article, I argue that approximating virtues such as care and respectfulness are necessary to conduct an informed consent discussion for clinical trials adequately. I argue against Beauchamp and Childress' principlism insofar as it c...