Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert
Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.
Decade of the mind [0.03%]
心灵的年代
Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer
In the Fall of 2007, ten neuroscientists published a proposal for an interdisciplinary research initiative, the Decade of the Mind, that would focus on four "broad but intertwined areas": mental health, research on high-level cognitive func...
A Darwinian perspective: right premises, questionable conclusion. A commentary on Niall Shanks and Rebecca Pyles' "evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin"" [0.03%]
达尔文主义观 point of view:正确的前提，值得怀疑的结论——对Niall Shanks和Rebecca Pyles所著“进化与医学： Dr. Darwin深远影响”的评论
Paolo Vineis,Ronald Melnick
Paolo Vineis
As Dobzhansky wrote, nothing in biology makes sense outside the context of the evolutionary theory, and this truth has not been sufficiently explored yet by medicine. We comment on Shanks and Pyles' recently published paper, Evolution and m...
Thomas S Huddle,Michael A Schwartz,F Amos Bailey et al.
Thomas S Huddle et al.
A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently disputed whether non-heart beating organ donors are alive and whether non-heart beating organ donation (NHBD) contravenes the dead donor rule. Several ...
Are human embryos Kantian persons?: Kantian considerations in favor of embryonic stem cell research [0.03%]
人类胚胎是康德意义上的道德主体吗？支持胚胎干细胞研究的几点康德主义思考
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
One argument used by detractors of human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) invokes Kant's formula of humanity, which proscribes treating persons solely as a means to an end, rather than as ends in themselves. According to Fuat S. Oduncu,...
The ethics of interrogation and the American Psychological Association: a critique of policy and process [0.03%]
审讯伦理与美国心理学会：对政策和流程的批判
Brad Olson,Stephen Soldz,Martha Davis
Brad Olson
The Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS) task force was assembled by the American Psychological Association (APA) to guide policy on the role of psychologists in interrogations at foreign detention centers for the purpose of U....
A funny thing happened on the way to the journal: a commentary on Foucault's ethics and Stuart Murray's "Care of the self" [0.03%]
趣事发生在前往期刊的路上——福柯伦理学及斯图亚特·梅里的《自我关照》书评式评论
Madeleine J Murtagh
Madeleine J Murtagh
Stuart Murray's 'Care and the self: biotechnology, reproduction, and the good life' utilizes Foucault's "care of the self" to examine health domains in its title. The present author discusses three important articulations of concern with th...
Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations [0.03%]
典型的持久性植物状态引起的脑损伤是否有任何心理因素能侥幸存活下来？伦理学思考
Jaak Panksepp,Thomas Fuchs,Victor Abella Garcia et al.
Jaak Panksepp et al.
Recent neuroscientific evidence brings into question the conclusion that all aspects of consciousness are gone in patients who have descended into a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Here we summarize the evidence from human brain imaging ...
Ethics of open access to biomedical research: just a special case of ethics of open access to research [0.03%]
生物医学研究开放获取的伦理问题只是科学研究开放获取伦理的一个特例吗？
Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad
The ethical case for Open Access (OA) (free online access) to research findings is especially salient when it is public health that is being compromised by needless access restrictions. But the ethical imperative for OA is far more general:...
Why the way we consider the body matters - reflections on four bioethical perspectives on the human body [0.03%]
为什么我们考虑身体的方式很重要——四种生物伦理视角下的反思
Silke Schicktanz
Silke Schicktanz
Background: Within the context of applied bioethical reasoning, various conceptions of the human body are focused upon by the author in relation to normative notions of autonomy. ...