Franklin G Miller,Howard Brody
Franklin G Miller
Despite strong growth in scientific investigation of the placebo effect, understanding of this phenomenon remains deeply confused. We investigate critically seven common conceptual distinctions that impede clear understanding of the placebo...
Conscience and collective duties: do medical professionals have a collective duty to ensure that their profession provides non-discriminatory access to all medical services? [0.03%]
道德与集体责任：医务人员是否有责任确保其职业向所有患者提供非歧视性的医疗服务？
Joseph Clint Parker
Joseph Clint Parker
Recent debates have led some to question the legitimacy of physicians refusing to provide legally permissible services for reasons of conscience. In this paper, I will explore the question of whether medical professionals have a collective ...
Arboriculture in clinical ethics: using philosophical critical appraisal to clear away underbrush in ethical analysis and argument [0.03%]
临床伦理中的园艺学：使用哲学批判性评价清除伦理分析和论证中的杂草
Laurence B McCullough
Laurence B McCullough
This paper introduces the 2011 number of the Journal on Clinical Ethics. Philosophical critical appraisal is essential for the success of philosophical analysis and argument in clinical ethics. To clear away conceptual underbrush, papers in...
James Hughes
James Hughes
Transhumanism, the belief that technology can transcend the limitations of the human body and brain, is part of the family of Enlightenment philosophies. As such, transhumanism has also inherited the internal tensions and contradictions of ...
Jeffrey P Bishop
Jeffrey P Bishop
After describing Heidegger's critique of metaphysics as ontotheology, I unpack the metaphysical assumptions of several transhumanist philosophers. I claim that they deploy an ontology of power and that they also deploy a kind of theology, a...
Michael Bess
Michael Bess
A key aspect of transhumanist thought involves the modification or augmentation of human physical and mental capabilities--a form of intervention often encapsulated under the term "enhancement." This article provides an overview of the conc...
Moral transhumanism [0.03%]
伦理超人主义
Ingmar Persson,Julian Savulescu
Ingmar Persson
In its basic sense, the term "human" is a term of biological classification: an individual is human just in case it is a member of the species Homo sapiens. Its opposite is "nonhuman": nonhuman animals being animals that belong to other spe...
A transhumanist fault line around disability: morphological freedom and the obligation to enhance [0.03%]
围绕残疾的跨人类主义断层线：形态自由与增强义务
Heather G Bradshaw,Ruud ter Meulen
Heather G Bradshaw
The transhumanist literature encompasses diverse non-novel positions on questions of disability and obligation reflecting long-running political philosophical debates on freedom and value choice, complicated by the difficulty of projecting ...
Enhancing who? Enhancing what? Ethics, bioethics, and transhumanism [0.03%]
增强谁？增强什么？伦理学、生命伦理学与后人类主义
Tom Koch
Tom Koch
Transhumanists advance a "posthuman" condition in which technological and genetic enhancements will transform humankind. They are joined in this goal by bioethicists arguing for genetic selection as a means of "enhancing evolution," improvi...
Should the Confucian family-determination model be rejected? A case study [0.03%]
应摒弃儒家的择偶模式吗？一个案例研究
En-Chang Li,Chun-Feng Wen
En-Chang Li
This essay explores a tragic event that happened in China, which garnered much attention, the Li case: a young woman who was nine months pregnant and her baby died as a result of the failure to receive a medically necessary c-section due to...