Managing scientific uncertainty in medical decision making: the case of the advisory committee on immunization practices [0.03%]
医疗决策中的科学不确定性管理——免疫实践咨询委员会案例分析
J Michael Martinez
J Michael Martinez
This article explores the question of how scientific uncertainty can be managed in medical decision making using the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices as a case study. It concludes that where a high degree of technical consensus ...
Elisabeth Furberg
Elisabeth Furberg
The personal identity problem expresses the worry that due to disrupted psychological continuity, one person's advance directive could be used to determine the care of a different person. Even ethicists, who strongly question the possibilit...
Why treat noncompliant patients? Beyond the decent minimum account [0.03%]
为什么要去治疗不遵医嘱的病人？道德要求不仅限于最低标准
Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal
Patients' medical conditions can result from their own avoidable risk taking. Some lung diseases result from avoidable smoking and some traffic accidents result from victims' reckless driving. Although in many nonmedical areas we hold peopl...
Leonard M Fleck
Leonard M Fleck
What should be the content of a package of health care services that we would want to guarantee to all Americans? This question cannot be answered adequately apart from also addressing the issue of fair health care rationing. Consequently, ...
The medical minimum: zero [0.03%]
医疗底线：零分
Jan Narveson
Jan Narveson
The question is what the mandated medical minimum for all should be. The correct answer is zero. That is to say, the government should not be forcing anyone to pay for anyone. The most popular arguments within the liberal framework, presume...
Jason T Eberl,Eleanor D Kinney,Matthew J Williams
Jason T Eberl
Discussions concerning whether there is a natural right to health care may occur in various forms, resulting in policy recommendations for how to implement any such right in a given society. But health care policies may be judged by interna...
Andrew Warsop
Andrew Warsop
The ill body is sometimes phenomenologically interpreted as a "broken tool" encountered in an uncanny way. I argue that this is not what is most uncanny about illness. Within the context of an account of Freud and Heidegger's work, I argue ...
Respect for personal autonomy, human dignity, and the problems of self-directedness and botched autonomy [0.03%]
尊重个人自主权和人的尊严以及自治中的问题和失败
Y Michael Barilan
Y Michael Barilan
This paper explores the value of respect for personal autonomy in relation to clearly immoral and irrational acts committed freely and intentionally by competent people. Following Berlin's distinction between two kinds of liberty and Darwal...
Jennifer A Bulcock
Jennifer A Bulcock
The Massachusetts health plan, individual mandates, and the neutrality of the liberal state [0.03%]
马萨诸塞州的医保计划、个人强制保险以及自由国家的中立性
Dale Murray
Dale Murray
In 2007, Massachusetts instituted a universal coverage health plan that requires all citizens to purchase insurance. I argue that there is nothing wrong in principle with the use of an individual mandate to force citizens to secure health i...