David Shaw
David Shaw
In this paper, I summarize the medical evidence regarding the auditory and non-auditory effects of noise and analyse the ethics of noise and personal autonomy in the social environment using a variety of case studies. Key to this discussion...
Bouke de Vries
Bouke de Vries
Many individuals on the autism spectrum are hypersensitive to certain sensory stimuli. For this group, as well as for non-autistic individuals with sensory processing disorders, being exposed to e.g. fluorescent lights, perfume odours, and ...
'Personal Health Surveillance': The Use of mHealth in Healthcare Responsibilisation [0.03%]
“个人健康监护”：mHealth在医疗责任中的应用
Ben Davies
Ben Davies
There is an ongoing increase in the use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies that patients can use to monitor health-related outcomes and behaviours. While the dominant narrative around mHealth focuses on patient empowerment, there is po...
The 'Ethical' COVID-19 Vaccine is the One that Preserves Lives: Religious and Moral Beliefs on the COVID-19 Vaccine [0.03%]
关于新冠疫苗的宗教和道德信仰：“道德的”新冠疫苗是能挽救生命的那一个
Alberto Giubilini,Francesca Minerva,Udo Schuklenk et al.
Alberto Giubilini et al.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is a serious public health and economic emergency, and although effective vaccines are the best weapon we have against it, there are groups and individuals who oppose certain kinds of vaccines because of perso...
Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening: From the Clinic to the Population [0.03%]
生殖遗传携带者筛查的伦理：从临床到人群的角度考虑
Lisa Dive,Ainsley J Newson
Lisa Dive
Reproductive genetic carrier screening (RCS) is increasingly being offered more widely, including to people with no family history or otherwise elevated chance of having a baby with a genetic condition. There are valid reasons to reject a p...
Health Agency and Perfectionism: The Case of Perinatal Health Inequalities [0.03%]
卫生机构与完美主义：围产期健康不平等的案例分析
Hafez Ismaili M&#x;hamdi,Inez de Beaufort
Hafez Ismaili M&#x;hamdi
Poor pregnancy outcomes and inequalities in these outcomes remain a major challenge, even in prosperous societies that have high-quality health care and public health policy in place. In this article, we propose that justice demands the imp...
J van Herten,B Bovenkerk
J van Herten
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that zoonotic diseases are a great threat for humanity. During the course of such a pandemic, public health authorities often apply the precautionary principle to justify disease control measures. However, ev...
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
This study argues against the expansive approach to the WHO reform, according to which to be a better global health leader, WHO should do more, be given more power and financial resources, have more operational capacities, and have more tee...
Neil Levy,Julian Savulescu
Neil Levy
Seasonal influenza kills many hundreds of thousands of people every year. We argue that the current pandemic has lessons we should learn concerning how we should respond to it. Our response to the COVID-19 not only provides us with tools fo...
The Ethics of Stigma in Medical Male Circumcision Initiatives Involving Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
次撒哈拉非洲地区医疗男性包皮环切术项目中涉及青少年的耻辱伦理问题
Stuart Rennie,Adam Gilbertson,Denise Hallfors et al.
Stuart Rennie et al.
Ongoing global efforts to circumcise adolescent and adult males to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV constitute the largest public health prevention initiative, using surgical means, in human history. Voluntary medical male circumcision (V...