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A Right to Choose?: Sex Selection in the International Context [PDF]

, 2007
While there is some debate among doctors, ethicists, and the general public about the level of medical necessity that should justify a sex-selection procedure, most accept that sex selection for medical reasons is beyond ethical reproach, and in some ...
Bumgarner, Ashley
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second‐Order Volitions

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second‐order volitions, I argue that the preferences of the pre‐dementia self (the “then‐self”) should, in most cases, take ...
Rand Hirmiz
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Confuciansim and Korean Dramas: How Cultural and Social Proximity, Hybridization of Modernity and Tradition, and Dissimilar Confucian Trajectories Affect Importation Rates of Korean Broadcasting Programs between Japan and China [PDF]

, 2017
On April 3, 2004, five thousand Japanese citizens arrived at Haneda, Tokyo Airport to meet famous Korean actor Bae Yong Joon: the male love interest in the Korean drama Winter Sonata (Lee 12).
Jackson, Brianna
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“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source

Educators’ perceptions of the teaching of bioethics in primary and secondary schools in Greece

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
In recent years, a growing number of studies have emphasized the importance of integrating ethics education into the school curriculum. The objective of the present study is to investigate the perspectives of educators on the teaching of bioethics in ...
ES Livanis, KV Tsihrintzis, AK Tsaroucha
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The Goals of Bioethics Education

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 1970
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v1i1.9523 Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2010; 1(1 ...
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The Place of Marginalization in Bioethics: Do We Need the Concept?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marginalization is a widely studied phenomenon and recognized as a critical topic in relation to health, shaping health inequities, access to resources, health outcomes, and policy decisions. However, despite its normative importance for health and justice, its conceptual role in bioethics remains unclear.
Elisabeth Langmann, Verina Wild
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethical aspects of the management of patients with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Medisur, 2009
Bioethical aspects related with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with AIDS are present in the Cuban strategy to fight the epidemic.
Maria de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Pedro Sánchez Frenes.   +1 more
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Narrative Genomics: Creating a Stage for Inquiry and Bioethics Education [PDF]

, 2020
Bush, Lynn Wein
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