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Thinking like a mountain: A land ethical approach to healthcare resource allocation

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract 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 ...
Alistair Wardrope
wiley   +1 more source

Postponing Pregnancy Through Oocyte Cryopreservation for Social Reasons: Considerations Regarding Clinical Practice and the Socio-Psychological and Bioethical Issues Involved. [PDF]

open access: yesMedicina (Kaunas), 2018
Simopoulou M   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Public preferences regarding slow codes in critical care

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 337-342, May 2025.
Abstract The term slow code refers to an intentional reduction in the pace or intensity of resuscitative efforts during a medical emergency. This can be understood as an intermediate level between full code (full resuscitation efforts) and no code (no resuscitation efforts) and serves as a symbolic gesture when intervention is considered medically ...
Philipp Sprengholz
wiley   +1 more source

The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 456-459, June 2025.
Abstract It may only be a handful of years before fully autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs) are pushed into widespread clinical adoption. Nevertheless, whether it is ethical to greenlight the development and adoption of ANRs is still up for debate.
Arturo Balaguer Townsend
wiley   +1 more source

Cracking the code of the slow code: A taxonomy of slow code practices and their clinical and ethical implications

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 309-317, May 2025.
Abstract The ethical permissibility of the “slow code” sparks vigorous debate. However, definitions of the “slow code” that exist in the literature often leave room for interpretation. Thus, those assessing the ethical permissibility of the slow code may not be operating with shared definitions, and definitions may not align with clinicians ...
Erica Andrist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The virtues of limits and environmental sustainability in healthcare

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract The spectre of human‐induced climate change has drawn attention to the need to discover new, environmentally sustainable approaches to healthcare. This article draws upon David McPherson's The Virtues of Limits (2021) to develop a virtue ethics for sustainability in healthcare.
Xavier Symons
wiley   +1 more source

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