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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
wiley   +1 more source

MONITORING STEM CELL RESEARCH: A REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS

open access: yes, 2004
Letter of transmittal to the President -- Members of the President's Council on Bioethics -- Council staff and consultants - - Preface -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- I. What are stem cells, and why is there contention about them? -- II.
President's Council on Bioethics
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Mother Earth: Climate Justice, Infant Feeding Decisions, and Intimacy

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human infants require milk. This can be parental milk provided directly from the parent's body (known as breastfeeding, chestfeeding, or nursing), expressed human milk, or infant formula milk. This article contributes to the literature on the ethics of infant feeding in two ways. First, it brings recent research on the climate impact of infant
Fiona Woollard
wiley   +1 more source

Performative Blame Avoidance

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sometimes we avoid or minimize criticism for our failings by performing a merely symbolic act aimed at addressing a real or perceived blame allegation. Consider individuals or institutions performing land acknowledgements as a means of box‐ticking inclusion without committing to any significant change. Or consider corporations forming advisory
Nicolas Nicola
wiley   +1 more source

REPRODUCTION & RESPONSIBILITY: THE REGULATION OF NEW BIOTECHNOLOGIES: A REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS

open access: yes, 2004
Letter of transmittal to the President -- Members of the President's council on bioethics -- Council staff and consultants - - Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. -- Ch. 2. Assisted reproduction -- Ch.
President's Council on Bioethics (United States)
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Undignified Bioethics

open access: yes, 2010
The concept of dignity is pervasive in bioethics. However, some bioethicists have argued that it is useless on three grounds: that it is indeterminate; that it is reactionary; and that it is redundant.
Cochrane, Alasdair
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The teaching of Bioethics and the decision making: impacts at medical students

open access: yesO Mundo da Saúde, 2013
The evolution and consolidation of the Bioethics discipline after four decades of development and expansion throughout the world along with the Biotechnology development and the increasingly complex human relationships that started to question about the ...
Emerson Felix Fernandes   +1 more
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Taking Jobs and Doing Harm

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In popular discourse and in the philosophical literature there is almost no reflection on the morality of doing harm in the context of doing one's job. To the contrary, workers are valorised simply for having a job, and typically individual workers are spared from blame, even when they cause significant harm as part of their job.
Theron Pummer, Benjamin Sachs‐Cobbe
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethics Research Library Alphabetical Classification List

open access: yes, 2010
This documents contains a categorized list of the keywords used by the Bioethics Research Library that were used in order to index bioethics literature. It is placed here as a historical document to show the development of the controlled vocabulary used ...
Bioethics Research Library
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