Jason Morris
Jason Morris
Assigning the appropriate moral status to different stages of human development is an urgent problem in bioethics. Many philosophers have attempted to assess developmental events using strict ontological principles to determine when a devel...
Michael N Tennison
Michael N Tennison
Although transhumanism offers hope for the transcendence of human biological limitations, it generates many intrinsic and consequential ethical concerns. The latter include issues such as the exacerbation of social inequalities and the expo...
Carlos Soto
Carlos Soto
Some authors view the veil of ignorance as a preferred method for allocating resources because it imposes impartiality by stripping deliberators of knowledge of their personal identity. Using some prominent examples of such reasoning in the...
Anya Plutynski
Anya Plutynski
November 2009's announcement of the USPSTF's recommendations for screening for breast cancer raised a firestorm of objections. Chief among them were that the panel had insufficiently valued patients' lives or allowed cost considerations to ...
The holistic claims of the biopsychosocial conception of WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF): a conceptual analysis on the basis of a pluralistic-holistic ontology and multidimensional view of the human being [0.03%]
基于多元整体本体论和人类多维度观点的ICF的生物心理社会概念的整体性主张的概念分析
Hans Magnus Solli,António Barbosa da Silva
Hans Magnus Solli
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), designed by the WHO, attempts to provide a holistic model of functioning and disability by integrating a medical model with a social one. The aim of this article ...
Jeffrey P Bishop
Jeffrey P Bishop
Per Nortvedt
Per Nortvedt
The paper argues that a particular version of moral realism constitutes an important basis for ethics in medicine and health care. Moral realism is the position that moral value is a part of the fabric of relational and interpersonal realit...
The re-emergence of the liberal-communitarian debate in bioethics: exercising self-determination and participation in biomedical research [0.03%]
生物伦理学中的自由主义与社群主义辩论的复兴：在生物医学研究中行使自我决定和参与的权利
Erik Christensen
Erik Christensen
Biomedical research has brought to the fore the issue of which rights and duties we have to each other and society. Several scholars have advocated reframing the notion of participation, arguing that we have a moral duty to participate in r...
Alan Wertheimer
Alan Wertheimer
Some maintain that voluntariness is a value-neutral concept. On that view, someone acts involuntarily if subject to a controlling influence or has no acceptable alternatives. I argue that a value-neutral conception of voluntariness cannot e...
Bioethics, cultural differences and the problem of moral disagreements in end-of-life care: a terror management theory [0.03%]
bio伦理学、文化差异及临终关怀中的道德分歧问题：一种恐怖管理理论的观点
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Cultural differences in end-of-life care and the moral disagreements these sometimes give rise to have been well documented. Even so, cultural considerations relevant to end-of-life care remain poorly understood, poorly guided, and poorly r...