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Xenotransplantation in the Age of Genome Editing: Results From the Expert Report for the Federal Ethics Committee on Nonhuman Biotechnology With a Special Focus on Animal Ethics. [PDF]
XenotransplantationABSTRACT Background The Federal Ethics Committee on Non‐Human Biotechnology (ECNH) of Switzerland is an independent expert committee appointed by the Federal Council and mandated to advise the federal authorities from an ethical perspective in the field of nonhuman biotechnology and gene technology.
Camenzind S.
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Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco-ethical assessment. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT This paper aims to rethink healthcare sustainability from an eco‐ethical approach, mainly referring to van Rensselaer Potter's global bioethics and Arne Naess's ecosophy. In this sense, it seeks to address the ethical problem of allocating resources from a non‐individualist and essentially bio‐medical perspective, which interprets health (or ...
Valera L.
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Thinking like a mountain: A land ethical approach to healthcare resource allocation. [PDF]
BioethicsAbstract Human activity is now having a defining influence on global systems. The Anthropocene epoch requires revisiting our ethical presuppositions to understand our relationship to the earth's life support systems. The Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold proposes an ethic that is diachronic, holistic, and biocentric, in contrast to the synchronic ...
Wardrope A.
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On the normative roles of biodiversity and naturalness in conservation. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Nature is an opaque concept. Consequently, the term biodiversity conservation has replaced nature conservation in most conservation contexts. We review the conceptual indeterminacies that plague the terms nature and natural but then show that comparable difficulties plague biodiversity.
Saltz D, Cohen S.
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 60, Issue 9, Page 2111-2144, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The purpose of this study was to test predictability of environmental moral reasoning patterns of preservice science teachers (PSTs) by their epistemological beliefs and values. Four environmental moral dilemma scenarios that reflect different environmental moral dilemma situations taking place in four outdoor recreation contexts (i.e., hiking,
Büşra Tuncay‐Yüksel +2 more
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International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 521-529, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This article considers the notion of belonging as an always incomplete and evolving journey integral to which is the gift of otherness; a journey that consists of a continuous mutation of self, others and world. This contrasts with the more fixed notion of ‘belonging‐to’ that suggests prescribed identities affiliated to an established order ...
Dennis Atkinson
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 47, Issue 3, September 2023., 2023 Because home ranges for many sensitive wildlife species often transcend jurisdictions, species conservation requires collaborative efforts to engage multiple stakeholders. In 2019 to identify the operational mechanisms of governance that enabled the West Box Elder CRM to achieve long‐term sustainability while meeting community and species conservation ...
Justin R. Small +4 more
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Revisiting two dogmas of conservation science
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Conservation science is a morally motivated field, with implicit and explicit values built into its practice. As such, conservationists must engage with conservation ethics to interrogate underlying values. We examine cutting‐edge ecological science and contemporary ethics to revisit two conservation norms that have become dogmatic in the ...
Kristy M. Ferraro +3 more
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Research on dead human bodies: African perspectives on moral status
Developing World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 67-75, March 2023., 2023 Abstract A useful concept that can be invoked to resolve complex bioethical issues is that of moral status (or, human dignity). In this article, we apply this concept to dead human bodies in order to support our view that research on such bodies is permissible.
Heidi Matisonn +1 more
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Cyborg as a Destroyer of G. Agamben’s Anthropological Machine
Baltic Journal of Political Science, 2020 The ambition of this paper is to reason the consistency and logical coherence of the concept of Giorgio Agamben‘s anthropological machine. The important puzzle is that although Agamben emphasized the importance of having this machine destroyed, he did ...
Augustė Dementavičienė +1 more
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