Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness [0.03%]
分隔的思想，衰败的世界：论慢性孤独的病理学
Ian Marcus Corbin,Amar Dhand
Ian Marcus Corbin
The moment when a person's actual relationships fall short of desired relationships is commonly identified as the etiological moment of chronic loneliness, which can lead to physical and psychological effects like depression, worse recovery...
Gabriel Andrade,Maria Campo Redondo
Gabriel Andrade
While some countries are moving toward legalization, euthanasia is still criticized on various fronts. Most importantly, it is considered a violation of the medical ethics principle of non-maleficence, because it actively seeks a patient's ...
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning [0.03%]
单卵孪生的形而上学问题当受精卵分裂时会发生什么？
Jeremy W Skrzypek
Jeremy W Skrzypek
It is often argued that certain metaphysical complications surrounding the phenomenon of monozygotic twinning force us to conclude that, prior to the point at which twinning is no longer possible, the zygote or early embryo cannot be consid...
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study [0.03%]
了解我便等于还我清白：在威利斯布鲁克试验辩护中的品格诉求
John Lynch
John Lynch
The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study is one of the best-known examples of unethical medical research, but the research has always had defenders. One of the more intriguing defenses continually used was that critics did not know the researchers o...
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule [0.03%]
垂死者的器官捐献：应对供体短缺和“死者捐献”原则的一种方案
Sarah Chen,Robert M Sade,John W Entwistle
Sarah Chen
The dead donor rule (DDR) has facilitated the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives. Recent advances in heart donation, however, have exposed how DDR has limited donation of all organs. We propose advancing the moment in the dying proces...
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter [0.03%]
关于残疾与成就问题回应坎贝尔、尼霍尔姆和瓦尔特的观点
Ian D Dunkle
Ian D Dunkle
In this article, I explore the impact of disability on one of life's goods: achievement. Contra Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter. I argue that construing the magnitude of achievements in terms of subjective effort trivializes what it means to a...
Stephen Napier
Stephen Napier
A common justification for abortion rights is that the death of the fetus does not violate any of the fetus's time-relative interests. The time-relative interest account (TRIA) of harm and wrongdoing tells us that a necessary condition for ...
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials [0.03%]
观察性研究和大数据与随机试验的伦理问题比较
Jean Raymond,Robert Fahed,Tim E Darsaut
Jean Raymond
The temptation to use prospective observational studies (POS) instead of conducting difficult trials (RCTs) has always existed, but with the advent of powerful computers and large databases, it can become almost irresistible. We examine the...
Matthew Braddock
Matthew Braddock
When an abortion is performed, someone dies. Are we killing a human person? Widespread disagreement exists. However, it is not necessary to establish personhood in order to establish the wrongness of abortion: a substantial chance of person...
Sean Aas
Sean Aas
The literature on the determination of death has often if not always assumed that the concept of human death should be defined in terms of the end of the human organism. I argue that this broadly biological conceptualization of human death ...