Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
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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ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Why Engage Communities in Biomedical Research?
ABSTRACT While community engagement in biomedical research is widely lauded, and many reasons to engage communities have been adduced, it is unclear whether all these reasons are equally important, and, if not, which are most important. Here, I argue that, outside of rare circumstances, community engagement should not be understood as seeking ...
Robert Steel
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From concept to community of practice in anatomical ethics and professionalism: 5 years of the "Bioethics Unicorns" education initiative. [PDF]
Cornwall J, Hildebrandt S, Champney T.
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Respectful Debiasing in Democratic Deliberation
ABSTRACT Democratic deliberation about health policy requires, as one of its inputs, ethical judgments from members of the public. These judgments may, however, be biased and unreliable—they may be systematically distorted by framing and emotion effects, by the effects of self‐interest, and by a whole host of other cognitive and affective biases ...
Shang Long Yeo
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Fundamental Principles of Bioethics and Their Implementation in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Clinical Complexities and the Imperative for Structured Ethics Education. [PDF]
Straka K, Christakou E.
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CRISPR, APGAR and Cancer Screening: Public Engagement, Controversy and Misaligned Values
ABSTRACT There are many calls for public engagement in decision‐making around controversial technologies, but far fewer calls for public engagement in deliberation around less controversial interventions. We think the public should be involved in discussing CRISPR, but not in discussing APGAR.
Stephen John
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Geriatric Residents' Perceptions of Training for Good Dying: A Qualitative Case Study in Colombia. [PDF]
Ceballos CCL +3 more
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Who Pays the Heat Debt? Ethics, Labour, and Governance in a Warming World
ABSTRACT Extreme heat is emerging as one of the most consequential occupational hazards of the 21st century. More than 2.4 billion workers, over 70% of the global labour force, are exposed to excessive heat, with more than 22 million heat‐related occupational injuries and nearly 19,000 deaths each year.
Animesh Ghimire
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