Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing [0.03%]
论制度性良心拒斥的三个理由及为什么这些理由（在形而上学意义上）站不住脚
Xavier Symons,Reginald Mary Chua
Xavier Symons
The past decade has seen a burgeoning of scholarly interest in conscientious objection in healthcare. While the literature to date has focused primarily on individual healthcare practitioners who object to participation in morally controver...
Thor Hennelund Nielsen
Thor Hennelund Nielsen
The following article presents preliminary reflections on a processual theory of health and disease. It does this by steering the discussion more toward an ontology of organisms rather than conceptual analysis of the semantic content of the...
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide [0.03%]
扩大持续镇静致死和医生协助自杀的使用范围
Samuel H LiPuma,Joseph P Demarco
Samuel H LiPuma
The controversy over the equivalence of continuous sedation until death (CSD) and physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia (PAS/E) provides an opportunity to focus on a significant extended use of CSD. This extension, suggested by the equivale...
Melissa Rees
Melissa Rees
Many extant theories of placebo focus on their causal structure wherein placebo effects are those that originate from select features of the therapy (e.g., client expectations or "incidental" features like size and shape). Although such acc...
Luke Semrau
Luke Semrau
It is widely agreed that living kidney donation is permitted but living kidney sales are not. Call this the Received View. One way to support the Received View is to appeal to a particular understanding of the conditions under which living ...
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder? [0.03%]
精神病学与形而上学：一个人能有关于精神疾病的实在论观点吗？
Simoni Iliadi
Simoni Iliadi
Metaphysical realism about mental disorder is the thesis that mental disorder exists mind-independently. There are two ways to challenge metaphysical realism about mental disorder. The first is by denying that mental disorder exists. The se...
Doug Hardman
Doug Hardman
The placebo effect is now generally defined widely as an individual's response to the psychosocial context of a clinical treatment, as distinct from the treatment's characteristic physiological effects. Some researchers, however, argue that...
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease [0.03%]
超越概念分析：利用社会客观性和概念工程来定义疾病
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien
In this article, I side with those who argue that the debate about the definition of "disease" should be reoriented from the question "what is disease" to the question of what it should be. However, I ground my argument on the rejection of ...
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification [0.03%]
疾病的漏洞：索引术语及其在疾病误分类中的作用
Alex N Roberts
Alex N Roberts
The definitions of disease proffered by philosophers and medical actors typically require that a state of ill health be linked to some known bodily dysfunction before it is classified as a disease. I argue that such definitions of disease a...
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease [0.03%]
干预主义与可理解性：为什么抑郁症不总是脑部疾病
Quinn Hiroshi Gibson
Quinn Hiroshi Gibson
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious condition with a large disease burden. It is often claimed that MDD is a "brain disease." What would it mean for MDD to be a brain disease? I argue that the best interpretation of this claim is a...