Between Rocks and Hard Places: Good Governance in Ethically Divided Communities [0.03%]
在困境中寻求善治：道德观冲突社区的治理之道
Roger Brownsword
Roger Brownsword
This article, prompted by Heidi Crowter's campaign to eliminate the discriminatory aspects of current abortion law, outlines the challenges to good governance in a context of bioethical plurality. First, the nature of the plurality is sketc...
Edward Hockings
Edward Hockings
The belief that genomics requires rethinking the 'social contract' to realize its potential has received backing from leading figures within bioethics. The case for a new social contract is anchored in notions of solidarity, altruism or the...
Sunni Islamic perspectives on lab-grown sperm and eggs derived from stem cells - in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) [0.03%]
逊尼派伊斯兰教对干细胞体外生成精子和卵子的看法
Gamal Serour,Mohammed Ghaly,Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen et al.
Gamal Serour et al.
An exciting development in the field of assisted reproductive technologies is In Vitro Gametogenesis (IVG) that enables production of functional gametes from stem cells in the laboratory. Currently, development of this technology is still a...
Trevor Stammers
Trevor Stammers
Heloise Robinson
Heloise Robinson
This article will review reasons why it is argued that the law on abortion on the grounds of disability is discriminatory, as well as recent unsuccessful attempts to address this discrimination in the law. These attempts include ones which ...
What are We Asking Patients to Do? A Critical Ethical Review of the Limits of Patient Self-Advocacy in the Oncology Setting [0.03%]
我们在要求病人做什么？肿瘤科环境下患者自我倡导的极限之批判伦理学评论
Daniel A Wilkenfeld,Teresa Hagan Thomas
Daniel A Wilkenfeld
Increasing emphasis on patient self-management, including having patients advocate for their needs and priorities, is generally a good thing, but it is not always wanted or attainable by patients. The aim of this critical ethical review is ...
Toward a Standard of Medical Care: Why Medical Professionals Can Refuse to Prescribe Puberty Blockers [0.03%]
迈向医疗护理标准：医学专业人员为什么可以拒绝开具抑制青春药物的处方
Ryan Kulesa
Ryan Kulesa
That a standard of medical care must outline services that benefit the patient is relatively uncontroversial. However, one must determine how the practices outlined in a medical standard of care should benefit the patient. I will argue that...
Gregory K Pike
Gregory K Pike
Reproductive coercion encompasses a collection of pregnancy promoting and pregnancy avoiding behaviours. Coercion may vary in severity and be perpetrated by intimate partners or others. Research is complicated by the inclusion of behaviours...
Prospects for limiting access to prenatal genetic information about Down syndrome in light of the expansion of prenatal genomics [0.03%]
面对产前基因组学的扩张限制唐氏综合症产前基因信息获取的可能性展望
Chris Kaposy
Chris Kaposy
Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) is a mild to moderate intellectual disability. Historically, this condition has been a primary target for prenatal testing. However, Down syndrome has not been targeted for prenatal testing because it is an especi...
Psychological and Ethical Challenges of Introducing Whole Genome Sequencing into Routine Newborn Screening: Lessons Learned from Existing Newborn Screening [0.03%]
新生儿常规筛查中引入全基因组测序的心理及伦理挑战——现有新生儿筛查项目的经验教训
Fiona Ulph,Rebecca Bennett
Fiona Ulph
As a psychologist and an ethicist, we have explored empirically newborn screening consent and communication processes. In this paper we consider the impact on families if newborn screening uses whole genome sequencing. We frame this within ...