Bioethics
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Pensar os limites do investimento curativo requer perspectivas a partir da nocao etica de limite, de desenvolvimento da biomedicina e das reflexoes da bioetica, assim como da natureza dos cuidados paliativos. As tres perspectivas – a da... more
Health care is ubiquitous in the lives of industrialized people. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impact the environment. Green Bioethics synthesizes environmental ethics and biomedical ethics, thus creating an... more
La crise écologique et environnementale pousse les militants à hausser la voix pour prêter plus d'attention au bienêtre animal. Afin que leur voix soit entendue, ils essayent de passer par le droit afin de légiférer leurs réclamations;... more
This article looks at the question of sin and disease in bioethics with a spiritual-theological analysis from the book of Job. The biblical figure Job is an innocent and just man who suffered horrendously. His dialogues with others—his... more
Although physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is legal in several jurisdictions around the world, debate about its merits and implementation is far from settled. This debate has special, timely significance in Canada, as new PAS legislation... more
The concept of antinatalism is now becoming popular on the Internet. Many online newspaper articles deal with this topic, and numerous academic papers on antinatalism have been published over the past ten years in the fields of philosophy... more
Different definitions of bioethics in American and Italian literature are reported. It is argued that they refer to three different conceptions of the epistemological status of bioethics: the first conceives of it as an application of... more
Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η ανασυγκρότηση του επιχειρήματος που παρουσιάζεται στο άρθρο The Rights of Past and Future Persons της Annette Baier, καθώς και μια σύντομη κριτική προσέγγιση του άρθρου.
Abstract: This essay considers the ways in which Hegel's theory of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) can provide us with a different understanding of our ethical obligations to animals. I argue that animal abuse and its toleration constitutes a... more
Generally characteristic of poor nations are special or vulnerable populations of the poor, especially the helpless and malnourished. The global health phenomenon Covid 19 brings to the fore an interplay of how the physical and mental... more
A rapid response opinion piece from Agriculture and Human Values: food studies faculty need better integration into bioethics
The COVID-19 infection fatality rate for children under the age of 17 is less than 0,003%. Children are at extremely low risk of severe illness from COVID-19, and children do not spread the illness in any significant way. Once a vaccine... more
Abstract. This paper proposes an ordering of ideas to create politics that distinguishes itself from conventional politics. It is called extrapolitics. To define extrapolitics, the concept of politics, transhumanism and dialectic -... more
It is sometimes argued that the non-therapeutic, non-consensual alteration of children’s genitals should be discussed in two separate ethical discourses: one for girls (in which such alterations should be termed ‘female genital... more
Hello, I'm Shelley Tremain and I'd like to welcome you to the thirty-ninth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I'm conducting with disabled philosophers and post here on the third Wednesday of each month.... more
What is 10x more lethal than COVID-19? Viral covidiocy. 9 out of 10 COVID deaths were vaccinated in the K, Israel, Chile and Argentina, where case fatality rate was 1300% higher for the vaccinated than for the unvaccinated, plus a higher... more
Este artículo sintetiza una breve bibliografía sobre el especismo y los derechos de los animales. Su fin es servir como referencia para los interesados en la ética aplicada y la relación humano-animal.
Il dibattito sulla clonazione umana precedente alla nascita della pecora Dolly. Scienziati, filosofi e scrittori di fantascienza si confrontano sulle questioni morali di tecnica riproduttiva.
The paper entitled “Bioethics Committees/Commissions in Hospitals — The Experience of Other Countries. Where to Start?” touches upon the topic of calling into being bioethics committees in Polish hospitals. The need for creating such... more
Mentally ill patients who have been involuntarily confined under civil commitment laws are extraordinarily vulnerable to exploitation. Yet federal research guidelines are silent on whether such patients are legitimate targets for... more
This response document will briefly address concerns about the ethical, legal and methodological flaws with past research informing aspects of present PEPFAR program areas; concerns about adverse consequences of PEPFAR program areas; and... more
Part of a series from Visual Aid Publishing, designed for Kindle, iPad etc. Aimed at a general readership but also useful for teaching purposes, as an accessible, thought provoking and inexpensive introduction. Topics include Abortion,... more
Part of a series from Visual Aid Publishing, designed for Kindle, iPad etc. Aimed at a general readership but also useful for teaching purposes, as an accessible, thought provoking and inexpensive introduction. Topics include Abortion,... more
This opinion piece considers the minor's right to refuse life-saving medical treatment in the context of the UK teenager (Hannah Jones) who wished to refuse to undergo a heart transplant.
Some people with dementia are transformed by the disease, to the point that family members may describe them as a “different person.” These transformations may be negative or positive. What factors affect the judgements of ordinary people... more
Os avanços tecnocientíficos das últimas décadas contribuíram para o aumento do número de pacientes com doenças terminais no mundo. Em decorrência da milenar conexão entre a fase de terminalidade de vida e os processos espiritualistas,... more
El presente estudio busca analizar la práctica de los trasplantes de médula ósea en Brasil a la luz de la Bioética. Partiendo del presupuesto constitucional brasileño de que la salud es un derecho de todas las personas, analiza el acceso... more
Me medicine vs. we medicine: reclaiming biotechnology for the common good, by Donna Dickenson, New York, Columbia University Press, 2013, 296 pp., £19.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-231-15974-6 “Is personalised medicine replacing public... more
Justifying the existence of professional ethics in medicine is usually connected with the traditions of a profession and with a humanistic dimension of these ethics, pointing at the same time to their culture-forming character. With such... more