Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a phenomenon whereby an individual with decision‐making capacity chooses to cease eating and drinking with the intention of ending their own life. This is widely acknowledged as a lawful, albeit uncommon, end‐of‐life decision.
Laura Gilbertson +2 more
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Applying One Health Bioethical Principles to Climate Change: The Planetary Patient Paradigm. [PDF]
CureusLewczak Z, Mitchell MG.
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Should Moral Repair Be Offered to Morally Injured Laboratory Animal Technicians?
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lab‐technicians are at risk of sustaining moral injuries when complicit in unethical experiments. Prima facie, it would be puzzling to offer the perpetrator of an unethical experiment psychological support in the form of moral repair. However, we argue that lab technicians are owed moral repair as a special case of our proposed duty of special
John Goris, Jane Johnson
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Japanese attitudes toward human brain organoid research: broad support amid ethical concerns. [PDF]
Front GenetSawai T, Koike M, Kataoka M.
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in healthcare in a variety of ways, ranging from semi‐autonomous decision support systems to the various visions of completely autonomous clinical systems. This article explores the ethical and legal issues that accompany this shift and argues that traditional ways of understanding medical ...
Man Teng Iong
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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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Health Research Funders and Justice: Obligations to Coordinate and Counterbalance
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Government health research funders are frequently criticized on the grounds that their distribution of resources fails to reflect a population's disease burden. These critiques do not take into account what other research funders are doing. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake.
Joseph Millum
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Behavioral Science Research Informs Bioethical Issues in the Conduct of Large-Scale Studies of Children's Disease Risk. [PDF]
AJOB Prim Res, 2013 Tercyak KP +4 more
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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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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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