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This backstory is a conversation highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for developing the field of neurotechnology and for its safe clinical translation and assessment of its societal impacts.
Flavia Vitale +2 more
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John William Trevan’s concept of Median Lethal Dose (LD50/LC50) – more misused than used
Introduction Median lethal dose (MLD) has been a controversial subject among biologists and animal ethicists since its inception in 1927 by Trevan. Toxicologists use MLD (LD50) as the first step to assess the toxicity of a substance.
Sadasivan Kalathil Pillai +5 more
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Jacques Rancière and Care Ethics: Four Lessons in (Feminist) Emancipation
This paper proposes a conversation between Jacques Rancière and feminist care ethicists. It argues that there are important resonances between these two bodies of scholarship, thanks to their similar indictments of Western hierarchies and binaries, their
Sophie Bourgault
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Challenges facing cross‐disciplinary collaboration in conservation ethics
The enterprise of conservation is inherently ethical, requiring conservationists to navigate morally challenging problems. Working together, conservationists and ethicists have developed the field of conservation ethics.
Kristy M. Ferraro +2 more
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Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism? [PDF]
Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare.
Rubin, Michael, Schwenkenbecher, Anne
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Impacts of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic on the Work of Bioethicists in Canada
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fields of healthcare, public health, and scientific research in Canada.
Marilou Charron +5 more
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Une perspective philosophique sur la durabilité forte. Pour un écocentrisme relationnel
The debate between strong and weak sustainability was often described by the environmental ethicists as a debate between economists to which they didn’t want to participate in.
Rémi Beau
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Elective Modernism and the Politics of (Bio) Ethical Expertise [PDF]
In this essay I consider whether the political perspective of third wave science studies – ‘elective modernism’ – offers a suitable framework for understanding the policy-making contributions that (bio)ethical experts might make. The question arises as a
C Cowley +36 more
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It is common to hear the refrain that religion is a major cause of violence today. And this claim is not without merit. Religious differences can fuel animosity and lead to societal conflict.
Alan Vincelette
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A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies and Their Relevance to Informa-tion Ethics [PDF]
In light of converging technologies, there is a clear sense that ethicists of various technological domains are coming together. Or, that they should come together. Yet, despite increasing cooperation and boundary-crossing in various fields of the ethics
Wong, Pak-Hang
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