Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justifications [0.03%]
强制性公共卫生政策需要具体情况下的伦理证明
Tess Johnson,Lerato Ndlovu,Omolara O Baiyegunhi et al.
Tess Johnson et al.
Public health policies designed to improve individual and population health may involve coercion. These coercive policies require ethical justification, and yet it is unclear in the public health ethics literature which ethical concepts mig...
Kathryn L MacKay
Kathryn L MacKay
In the ethics of public health, questions of virtue, that is, of what it means for public health to act excellently, have received little attention. This omission needs remedy first because achieving improvements in population-wide health c...
Shazeea Mohamed Ali
Shazeea Mohamed Ali
New Zealand and Malaysia have abandoned plans to introduce a generational smoking ban because of concerns that such a policy is incompatible with liberal democracy as it undermines autonomy. This paper challenges this claim by showing that ...
The immorality of bombing abortion clinics as proof that abortion is not murder [0.03%]
炸毁人流诊所的不道德性证明了人工流产不是谋杀
Gabriel Andrade
Gabriel Andrade
The Roe v. Wade decision was overturned in the United States in 2022. This implies that while abortion remains legal in most jurisdictions, it is no longer a constitutional right, thus paving the way for making it illegal. Ever since the Ro...
The provision of abortion in Australia: service delivery as a bioethical concern [0.03%]
澳大利亚的堕胎服务：作为生物伦理问题的堕胎服务提供
Nathan Emmerich
Nathan Emmerich
Despite significant progress in the legalization and decriminalization of abortion in Australia over the past decade or more recent research and government reports have made it clear that problems with the provision of services remain. This...
Zero-covid advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of views on Twitter/X [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间的清零倡导：对Twitter/X上观点的案例研究
Kasper P Kepp,Kevin Bardosh,Tijl De Bie et al.
Kasper P Kepp et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many advocacy groups and individuals criticized governments on social media for doing either too much or too little to mitigate the pandemic. In this article, we review advocacy for COVID-19 elimination or "zer...
Do androids dream of informed consent? The need to understand the ethical implications of experimentation on simulated beings [0.03%]
类人机器人会梦想拥有知情同意权吗？试验模拟生命体的伦理含义探讨
Alexander Gariti
Alexander Gariti
Creating simulations of the world can be a valuable way to test new ideas, predict the future, and broaden our understanding of a given topic. Presumably, the more similar the simulation is to the real world, the more transferable the knowl...
The foundations of informed consent and bodily self-sovereignty: a positive suggestion [0.03%]
知情同意与身体自主权的根基——一种肯定性建议
Joanna Smolenski
Joanna Smolenski
In medical care, the obtaining of informed consent is taken to be required prior to treatment in order to ensure that patients sufficiently understand the potential risks and benefits of a given medical procedure. In this paper, I begin by ...
Maja Baretić,David de Bruijn
Maja Baretić
There are ethical dilemmas faced by clinicians when responding to using unregistered medical devices, such as innovative internet technologies for managing type 1 diabetes mellitus. This chronic disease significantly impacts patients' healt...
David B Resnik
David B Resnik
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of biosafety in the biomedical sciences. While it is often assumed that biosafety is a purely technical matter that has little to do with philosophy or the humanities, biosafety raises im...