Meng-Kin Lim
Meng-Kin Lim
Are values and social priorities universal, or do they vary across geography, culture, and time? This question is very relevant to Asia's emerging economies that are increasingly looking at Western models for answers to their own outmoded h...
Individuals are inadequate: recognizing the family-centeredness of Chinese bioethics and Chinese health system [0.03%]
个体是不足的：认识中国生物伦理学和中国卫生体系以家庭为中心的特点
Jun Li,Jue Wang
Jun Li
This paper is aimed at a critical assessment of the moral framework of the current Chinese health system from a Confucian perspective, by focusing on the debate between the individual directed approach and the family-oriented approach to a ...
Families, dependencies, and the moral ground of health savings accounts [0.03%]
家庭、依赖关系以及健康储蓄账户的道德基础
Jeffrey P Bishop
Jeffrey P Bishop
Health Savings Accounts have been marginalized in the West. In Singapore, however, they are foundational to the financing of health care. In this brief essay, I shall begin to sketch a justification for Health Savings Accounts. The family h...
Núria Terribas
Núria Terribas
Harm, change, and time [0.03%]
伤害、改变与时间
Christopher Belshaw
Christopher Belshaw
What is harm? I offer an account that involves the victim's either suffering some adverse intrinsic change or being prevented from enjoying some beneficial intrinsic change. No one is harmed, I claim, in virtue of relational changes alone. ...
The ghost in the machine is the elephant in the room: souls, death, and harm at the end of life [0.03%]
机器中的鬼魂就是房间中的大象：灵魂、死亡以及生命尽头的伤害
Russell Disilvestro
Russell Disilvestro
The idea that we human beings have souls that can continue to have conscious experiences after the deaths of our bodies is controversial in contemporary academic bioethics; this idea is obviously present whenever questions about harm at the...
T M Wilkinson
T M Wilkinson
Gametes, tissue, and organs can be taken from the dying or dead for reproduction, transplantation, and research. Whole bodies as well as parts can be used for teaching anatomy. While these uses are diverse, they have an ethical consideratio...
The time of death's badness [0.03%]
死亡的坏的时间
Jens Johansson
Jens Johansson
Those who endorse the view that death is in some cases bad for the deceased--a view that, as I shall explain, has considerable bearing on many bioethical issues--need to address the following, Epicurean question: When is death bad for the o...
Susan B Levin
Susan B Levin
The merit of Plato's Laws remains largely untapped by those seeking genuinely collaborative models of the doctor-patient tie as alternatives to paternalism and autonomy. A persistent difficulty confronting proposed alternatives has been sur...
David M Shaw,Jacob Busch
David M Shaw
MacDougall has argued that Rawls's liberal social theory suggests that parents who hold certain religious convictions can legitimately refuse blood transfusion on their children's behalf. This paper argues that this is wrong for at least fi...