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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second‐Order Volitions

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second‐order volitions, I argue that the preferences of the pre‐dementia self (the “then‐self”) should, in most cases, take ...
Rand Hirmiz
wiley   +1 more source

[Personalist bioethics and utilitarian bioethics].

open access: yesCuadernos de bioetica : revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica, 2014
This paper shows the insufficiency of a bioethics which would intend to derive its proposals from Utilitarianism, identifying some inadequacies in the ethics of John Stuart Mill, e.g., the difficulties of the utilitarian commitment with instrumentalism, the deficiency of an utilitarian moral psychology and the naiveté of the forensic dimension of the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Tell or hide the truth from patients? The role of bioethics in medicine. [PDF]

open access: yesSICOT J
Tsihrintzis KV   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bullying research has traditionally relied on self‐reported measures such as questionnaires and interviews. Previous studies have shown developmental differences in attention mechanisms, with adults relying more on top‐down processing and younger individuals on bottom‐up attention.
Laura Menabò, Annalisa Guarini
wiley   +1 more source

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