Rachel Horton,Anneke Lucassen
Rachel Horton
Our ability to generate genomic data is currently well ahead of our ability to understand what they mean, raising challenges about how best to engage with them. This article considers ethical aspects of work with such data, focussing on res...
The Making of Imago Hominis: Can We Produce Artificial Companions by Programming Sentience into Robots? [0.03%]
人工造己：机器人程序化产生意识以制造人造伴侣的可能性
Zishang Yue
Zishang Yue
This essay discusses sentient robot (SR) research through the lens of suffering. First three kinds of suffering are considered: physical, psychological, and existential. Physical pain is shown to be primarily subjective, and distinctive psy...
Richard B Gibson
Richard B Gibson
Cryopreservation presents the possibility of circumventing irreversible death through the body's extreme cooling. Once cooled, this 'cryon' is then stored at sub-zero temperatures until medical knowledge enables curative revival. However, t...
Trevor Stammers
Trevor Stammers
Killing and Impairing Fetuses [0.03%]
杀胎与致畸行为
Prabhpal Singh
Prabhpal Singh
Could it be that if a fetus is not a person abortion is still immoral? One affirmative answer comes in the form of 'The Impairment Argument', which utilizes 'The Impairment Principle' to argue that abortion is immoral even if fetuses lack p...
David Smithard,Rhea Randhawa
David Smithard
Restraint has been used within health care settings for many centuries. Initially physical restraint (PR) was the method of choice, in present times. Within critical care units PR and chemical restraint are used, frequently in tandem. Restr...
COVID-19 Vaccination Should not be Mandatory for Health and Social Care Workers [0.03%]
不必强制医护人员接种新冠疫苗
Daniel Rodger,Bruce P Blackshaw
Daniel Rodger
A COVID-19 vaccine mandate is being introduced for health and social care workers in England, and those refusing to comply will either be redeployed or have their employment terminated. We argue that COVID-19 vaccination should not be manda...
James E Hurford
James E Hurford
The paper considers whether the British Government could make receiving a COVID-19 vaccine effectively legally mandatory. After considering the position in English law, it considers the ethical position regarding involuntary vaccination, an...
Joshua Shaw
Joshua Shaw
Abortion opponents are sometimes accused of having inconsistent beliefs, actions, and/or priorities. If they were consistent, they would regard spontaneous abortions to be a greater moral tragedy, or they would adopt more frozen in vitro fe...
Trevor Stammers
Trevor Stammers