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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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Controle ético de pesquisas cujos resultados tenham alto risco para a saúde da população
RESUMO Este artigo problematiza o conflito ético surgido entre a necessidade de garantir o avanço da ciência e controlar suas possíveis consequências para a humanidade. Em pesquisa realizada na literatura científica latino-americana e nas bases jurídicas
Sandra Ceciliano de Souza Veloso +2 more
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Bioethical Issues in Xenotransplantation
The transplantation of animal tissue and organs (xenotransplantation) is touted as one of the future options for transplantation medicine. This technology implies many unsolved practical and ethical problems. The article summarizes those issues in xenotransplantation which require international efforts with special emphasis on safety regulations to ...
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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention
ABSTRACT Wild animals suffer due to human activity, yet natural factors contribute far more significantly to their suffering. In light of this, some propose that we have a pro tanto obligation to intervene in ecosystems to improve wild animal welfare.
Tristan Katz
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions
ABSTRACT What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational design: epistemic quality, incentive compatibility, and control.
Chi Kwok, Chris Man‐Kong Li
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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Infusing Bioethics into Biology and Microbiology Courses and Curricula: A Vertical Approach
With the rise of biomedicine and biotechnology, there has been a corresponding growth in the need for better understanding of consequent ethical questions.
Kathleen S. Jagger, Jack Furlong
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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