How the contractualist account of preconception negligence undermines prenatal reproductive autonomy [0.03%]
契约论对孕前过失行为的解释如何削弱了胎儿的生殖自主权
Glen Melanson
Glen Melanson
Suppose a physician advises a woman to delay her planned pregnancy for a few months in order to significantly reduce the likelihood that her baby will suffer with Spina Bifida. If the woman chooses to ignore this advice and conceives soon a...
Thomas Douglas,Katrien Devolder
Thomas Douglas
Existing debate on procreative selection focuses on the well-being of the future child. However, selection decisions can also have significant effects on the well-being of others. Moreover, these effects may run in opposing directions; some...
J Paul Kelleher
J Paul Kelleher
Norman Daniels's theory of health justice is the most comprehensive and systematic such theory we have. In one of the few articles published so far on Daniels's new book, Just Health, Benjamin Sachs argues that Daniels's core "principle of ...
Thomas S Huddle
Thomas S Huddle
Contemporary accounts of medical ethics and professionalism emphasize the importance of social justice as an ideal for physicians. This ideal is often specified as a commitment to attaining the universal availability of some level of health...
Adam La Caze
Adam La Caze
A number of arguments have shown that randomization is not essential in experimental design. Scientific conclusions can be drawn on data from experimental designs that do not involve randomization. John Worrall has recently taken proponents...
Maturing the minor, marginalizing the family: on the social construction of the mature minor [0.03%]
成熟的小病人与被边缘化的家庭——论“成熟小病人”的社会建构
Rachelle Barina,Jeffrey P Bishop
Rachelle Barina
The doctrine of the mature minor began as an emergency exception to the rule of parental consent. Over time, the doctrine crept into cases that were non-emergent. In this essay, we show how the doctrine also developed in the context of the ...
Ignoring the data and endangering children: why the mature minor standard for medical decision making must be abandoned [0.03%]
无视数据危害儿童：为什么医疗决定中的“成熟未成年人”标准必须被抛弃
Mark J Cherry
Mark J Cherry
In Roper v. Simmons (2005) the United States Supreme Court announced a paradigm shift in jurisprudence. Drawing specifically on mounting scientific evidence that adolescents are qualitatively different from adults in their decision-making c...
The mature minor: some critical psychological reflections on the empirical bases [0.03%]
成熟的未成年人：一些批判性的心理反思及经验基础
Brian C Partridge
Brian C Partridge
Moral and legal notions engaged in clinical ethics should not only possess analytic clarity but a sound basis in empirical findings. The latter condition brings into question the expansion of the mature minor exception. The mature minor exc...
Does recent research on adolescent brain development inform the mature minor doctrine? [0.03%]
近年来关于青少年脑发育的研究是否支持未成年人成熟准则？
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg
US Supreme Court rulings concerning sanctions for juvenile offenders have drawn on the science of brain development and concluded that adolescents are inherently less mature than adults in ways that render them less culpable. This conclusio...
Ana S Iltis
Ana S Iltis
Decisions concerning children in the health care setting have engendered significant controversy and sparked ethics policies and statements, legal action, and guidelines regarding who ought to make decisions involving children and how such ...