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On Charlie Gard: Ethics, Culture, and Religion [PDF]

, 2018
The 2017 story of Charlie Gard is revisited. Upon the British High Court’s ruling in favor of the physicians that the infant should be allowed to die without the experimental treatment, the view of the public as well as the opinions of bioethicists and ...
Lee, Marvin J. H.
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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, Stephen W. Enciso   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Autonomy in Talmudic Context: The Patient’s ‘‘I Must Eat’’ on Yom Kippur in the Light of Contemporary Bioethics [PDF]

, 2016
In contemporary bioethics, the autonomy of the patient has assumed considerable importance. Progressing from a more limited notion of informed consent, shared decision making calls upon patients to voice the desires and preferences of their authentic ...
Berger, Zackary, Cahan, Joshua
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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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, Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethics and health law: the living will. Proposal to create a living will record in Europe [PDF]

, 2012
In this piece of work, we present a proposal to create a living will record in Europe that will allow people to have the same rights wherever they are.
Díez Rodríguez, José Ramón, Marcos del Cano, Ana Maria   +1 more
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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT Novel biological entities such as cell lines and organoids do not typically fit into established conceptual categories, such as ‘human’ or ‘nonhuman’, ‘gift’ or ‘property’. This makes developing robust ethical principles or policy solutions difficult.
Wee M, Singh I.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source