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Rational a priori or Emotional a priori? Husserl and Scheler’s Criticisms of Kant Regarding the Foundation of Ethics [PDF]

, 2011
Based on the dispute between Protagoras and Socrates on the origin of ethics, one can ask the question of whether the principle of ethics is reason orfeeling/emotion, or whether ethics is grounded on reason or feeling/emotion.
Zhang, Wei
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Public Preferences about Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter examines how social- scientific research on public preferences bears on the ethical question of how those resources should in fact be allocated, and explain how social-scientific researchers might find an understanding of work in ethics ...
Persad, Govind
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A large‐scale retrospective study in metastatic breast cancer patients using circulating tumour DNA and machine learning to predict treatment outcome and progression‐free survival

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes, Mario Ortega Duran, Solon Karapanagiotis, Alistair Martin, Meiling Gao, Riccardo Masina, Ramona Woitek, James Tanner, Fleur Tippin, Justine Kane, Jonathan Lay, Anja Brouwer, Stephen‐John Sammut, Suet‐Feung Chin, Davina Gale, Dana W. Y. Tsui, Sarah‐Jane Dawson, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Maurizio Callari, Oscar M. Rueda, Carlos Caldas   +20 more
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Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Confidentiality is one of the central preconditions for clinical ethics support (CES). CES cases which generate moral questions for CES staff concerning (breaching) confidentiality of what has been discussed during CES can cause moral ...
Wieke Ligtenberg, Margreet Stolper, Bert Molewijk   +2 more
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Mapping ethical issues in the use of smart home health technologies to care for older persons: a systematic review

BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background The worldwide increase in older persons demands technological solutions to combat the shortage of caregiving and to enable aging in place.
Nadine Andrea Felber, Yi Jiao (Angelina) Tian, Félix Pageau, Bernice Simone Elger, Tenzin Wangmo   +4 more
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Ethics – research, engineering, design… they’re all the same aren’t they? [PDF]

, 2014
This paper considers how and to what extent product design ethics is understood by professionals in design practice and undergraduate students of product and engineering design and how, if at all, design ethics differ from engineering and/or research ...
Blount, G., Humphries-Smith, Tania, Powell, J.   +2 more
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The ethics of sociocultural risk research [PDF]

, 2001
In socio-cultural risk research, an epistemological tension often follows if real hazards in the world are juxtaposed against the essentially socially constructed nature of all risk.
Sarre, S, Pidgeon, N, Simmons, P, Henwood, K, Smith, N   +4 more
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Escape from TGF‐β‐induced senescence promotes aggressive hallmarks in epithelial hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Chronic TGF‐β exposure drives epithelial HCC cells from a senescent state to a TGF‐β resistant mesenchymal phenotype. This transition is characterized by the loss of Smad3‐mediated signaling, escape from senescence, enhanced invasiveness and metastatic potential, and upregulation of key resistance modulators such as MARK1 and GRM8, ultimately promoting
Minenur Kalyoncu, Dilara Demirci, Sude Eris, Bengisu Dayanc, Ece Cakiroglu, Merve Basol, Merve Uysal, Gulcin Cakan‐Akdogan, Fang Liu, Mehmet Ozturk, Gökhan Karakülah, Serif Senturk   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study on existential suffering and assisted suicide in Switzerland

BMC Medical Ethics, 2019
Background In Switzerland, people can be granted access to assisted suicide (AS) on condition that the person whose wish is to die performs the fatal act, that he has his decisional capacity and that the assisting person’s conduct is not selfishly ...
Marie-Estelle Gaignard, Samia Hurst
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Kant and Consequentialism (Reflections on Cummiskey’s Kantian Consequentialism) [PDF]

, 2018
In his article, the author considers possible forms of relationship between Kant’s ethics and consequentialism. In this context, he analyses David Cummiskey’s views which are expressed in his book, Kantian Consequentialism ...
Gluchman, Vasil
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