Fuzzy trace theory and medical decisions by minors: differences in reasoning between adolescents and adults [0.03%]
论模糊痕迹理论与未成年人医疗决策：青少年和成年人推理差异
Evan A Wilhelms,Valerie F Reyna
Evan A Wilhelms
Standard models of adolescent risk taking posit that the cognitive abilities of adolescents and adults are equivalent, and that increases in risk taking that occur during adolescence are the result of socio emotional differences in impulsiv...
Kjetil Rommetveit,Jackie Leach Scully,Rouven Porz
Kjetil Rommetveit
This article reviews recent developments within a number of academic disciplines pointing toward an increasing importance of imagination for understanding morality and cognition. Using elements from hermeneutics and metaphor theory, it work...
D. Alan Shewmon and the PCBE's White Paper on Brain Death: are brain-dead patients dead? [0.03%]
亚兰·修蒙和美国总统生命伦理委员会的白皮书《脑死亡》：脑死病人是死者吗？
E Christian Brugger
E Christian Brugger
The December 2008 White Paper (WP) on "Brain Death" published by the President's Council on Bioethics (PCBE) reaffirmed its support for the traditional neurological criteria for human death. It spends considerable time explaining and critiq...
Pieter R Adriaens,Andreas De Block
Pieter R Adriaens
Essentialism is one of the most pervasive problems in mental health research. Many psychiatrists still hold the view that their nosologies will enable them, sooner or later, to carve nature at its joints and to identify and chart the essenc...
Psychiatric judgments across cultural contexts: relativist, clinical-ethnographic, and universalist-scientific perspectives [0.03%]
跨文化背景下的精神病学判断：相对主义、临床民族志和普遍科学主义视角
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Psychiatrists encounter persons from diverse cultures who profess experiences (e.g., communicating with spirits) that evoke intuitions of abnormality. This view might not be shared with the person or her/his cultural peers, raising question...
Yu Cai
Yu Cai
This article examines the impact of traditional Chinese culture on organ donation from the perspective of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. In each of these cultural systems, it appears that there are some particular sayings or remarks th...
Continuous sedation until death as physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia: a conceptual analysis [0.03%]
连续镇静至死亡是安乐死/医师协助自杀吗？概念分析
Samuel H Lipuma
Samuel H Lipuma
A distinction is commonly drawn between continuous sedation until death and physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia. Only the latter is found to involve killing, whereas the former eludes such characterization. I argue that continuous sedatio...
Justice and lung cancer [0.03%]
正义与肺癌患者权利
Aaron Wilson
Aaron Wilson
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths, yet research funding is by far the lowest for lung cancer than for any other cancer compared with respective death rates. Although this discrepancy should appear alarming, one could argue t...
Taking drugs very seriously [0.03%]
认真对待毒品问题
J Angelo Corlett
J Angelo Corlett
Neither anti-illegal drug proponents nor their detractors have wholly plausible arguments for their positions, because neither takes responsibility for drug use sufficiently seriously. Instead, only a policy that places users' responsibilit...
Chris Degeling,Jane Johnson
Chris Degeling
The seminal 1993 article by LaFollette and Shanks "Animal Models in Biomedical Research: Some Epistemological Worries" introduced an influential taxonomy into the debate about the value of animal experimentation. The distinction they made b...