Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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Hanta on the Hondius - public health and bioethical perspectives of the recent <i>Andes</i> hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. [PDF]
New Microbes New InfectTsiodras S +10 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Geneticization in the genomic era: a scoping review of ethical, clinical, and sociocultural transformations. [PDF]
Front SociolShaheen S, Ghaly M.
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Why Engage Communities in Biomedical Research?
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While community engagement in biomedical research is widely lauded, and many reasons to engage communities have been adduced, it is unclear whether all these reasons are equally important, and, if not, which are most important. Here, I argue that, outside of rare circumstances, community engagement should not be understood as seeking ...
Robert Steel
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How do global policy frameworks address the ethics of pain management? A qualitative content analysis of WHO and WMA documents. [PDF]
BMJ OpenCoşkun S, Büken NÖ.
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Respectful Debiasing in Democratic Deliberation
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic deliberation about health policy requires, as one of its inputs, ethical judgments from members of the public. These judgments may, however, be biased and unreliable—they may be systematically distorted by framing and emotion effects, by the effects of self‐interest, and by a whole host of other cognitive and affective biases ...
Shang Long Yeo
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A qualitative study of the ethical issues encountered at end-of-life care at a university teaching hospital in Nigeria. [PDF]
J Med EthicsUdeh NN, Idemili Aronu N, Ezeome ER.
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CRISPR, APGAR and Cancer Screening: Public Engagement, Controversy and Misaligned Values
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are many calls for public engagement in decision‐making around controversial technologies, but far fewer calls for public engagement in deliberation around less controversial interventions. We think the public should be involved in discussing CRISPR, but not in discussing APGAR.
Stephen John
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Editorial: Psychological factors as determinants of medical conditions, volume III. [PDF]
Front PsycholMartino G +3 more
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