Michael Potts
Michael Potts
The current practice of organ transplantation has been criticized on several fronts. The philosophical and scientific foundations for brain death criteria have been crumbling. In addition, donation after cardiac death, or non-heartbeating-o...
Thomas J Papadimos
Thomas J Papadimos
In Voltaire's work, Candide, a young, naïve man, who has been taught that humans live in the best of all possible worlds, is thrust into the world only to find that this may not be so. He learns over time to balance his optimism with the s...
Otto Doerr,Oscar Velásquez
Otto Doerr
Background: It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: a...
Seeking an ethical and legal way of procuring transplantable organs from the dying without further attempts to redefine human death [0.03%]
寻求一条伦理上和法律上合适的途径，从快死的供体身上获取移植器官，而不必进一步重新定义人的死亡
David Wainwright Evans
David Wainwright Evans
Because complex organs taken from unequivocally dead people are not suitable for transplantation, human death has been redefined so that it can be certified at some earlier stage in the dying process and thereby make viable organs available...
Andrea R Kottow,Michael H Kottow
Andrea R Kottow
Based on the distinction between living body and lived body, we describe the disease-subject as representing the impact of disease on the existential life-project of the subject. Traditionally, an individual's subjectivity experiences disor...
Recovery of transplantable organs after cardiac or circulatory death: transforming the paradigm for the ethics of organ donation [0.03%]
心脏停搏后器官捐献的伦理学观念转变：心死亡器官摘取中的伦理问题
Joseph L Verheijde,Mohamed Y Rady,Joan McGregor
Joseph L Verheijde
Organ donation after cardiac or circulatory death (DCD) has been introduced to increase the supply of transplantable organs. In this paper, we argue that the recovery of viable organs useful for transplantation in DCD is not compatible with...
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and enjoy the valuable life common to persons, entails that it...
Stuart J Murray
Stuart J Murray
This paper explores a novel philosophy of ethical care in the face of burgeoning biomedical technologies. I respond to a serious challenge facing traditional bioethics with its roots in analytic philosophy. The hallmarks of these traditiona...