Laura W Ekstrom
Laura W Ekstrom
This paper defends an account of compassion and argues for the centrality of compassion to the proper practice of medicine. The argument proceeds by showing that failures of compassion can lead to poor medical treatment and disastrous outco...
Organ transplantation and personal identity: how does loss and change of organs affect the self? [0.03%]
器官移植与个人身份：失去和更换器官如何影响自我？
Fredrik Svenaeus
Fredrik Svenaeus
In this paper, changes in identity and selfhood experienced through organ transplantation are analyzed from a phenomenological point of view. The chief examples are heart and face transplants. Similarities and differences between the exampl...
Matthew Ratcliffe
Matthew Ratcliffe
People with depression often report alterations in their experience of time, a common complaint being that time has slowed down or stopped. In this paper, I argue that depression can involve a range of qualitatively different changes in the...
Havi Carel
Havi Carel
Patient support tools have drawn on a variety of disciplines, including psychotherapy, social psychology, and social care. One discipline that has not so far been used to support patients is philosophy. This paper proposes that a particular...
Laurence B McCullough
Laurence B McCullough
It is well-recognized that uncertainty is an endemic feature and limitation of clinical judgment and practice that cannot be eliminated in many cases. Among the tasks of clinical ethics is the responsible management of uncertainties, first ...
Paul Burcher
Paul Burcher
When a patient fails to follow the advice or prescription of a physician, she is termed to be "noncompliant" by the medical community. The medical community's response to and understanding of patient noncompliance fails to acknowledge nonco...
Epistemic humility and medical practice: translating epistemic categories into ethical obligations [0.03%]
认识上的谦逊与医学实践：从认识范畴到伦理义务
Abraham Schwab
Abraham Schwab
Physicians and other medical practitioners make untold numbers of judgments about patient care on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. These judgments fall along a number of spectrums, from the mundane to the tragic, from the obvious to the ...
Ruud ter Meulen
Ruud ter Meulen
This article tries to analyze the meaning of a decent minimum of health care, by confronting the idea of decent care with the concept of justice. Following the ideas of Margalith about a decent society, the article argues that a just minimu...
Abortion and the argument from potential: what we owe to the ones who might exist [0.03%]
堕胎与潜能论：我们是否应该对可能存在的人负责？
Alberto Giubilini
Alberto Giubilini
I challenge the idea that the argument from potential (AFP) represents a valid moral objection to abortion. I consider the form of AFP that was defended by Hare, which holds that abortion is against the interests of the potential person who...
D Robert MacDougall,Griffin Trotter
D Robert MacDougall