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Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regret colours many areas of our lives, from the vital to the trivial. One example is in medical decision‐making, when physicians hesitate to provide procedures they think their patients will regret. For instance, physicians sometimes refuse younger women's requests for elective sterilization. Hesitating when we believe that we or someone else
Alyssa Izatt
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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BMC Research NotesObjective We attempted to conduct a randomized controlled trial of three different informed consent training formats to evaluate their effectiveness. We recruited 503 clinical research professionals, who received $50 for participation.
Erin D. Solomon +5 more
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The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
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Pediatrics and NeonatologyBackground: Noma, a severe and often fatal disease, is poorly understood due to limited data. Recently classified as a neglected tropical disease by WHO, its status in Ethiopia remains unclear.
Heron Gezahegn Gebretsadik
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Local attitudes in the treatment of low prognosis head and neck squamous cell carcinoma [PDF]
, 2015 The incidence of head and neck carcinoma in Malta is 2.44 per 100,000 population, with 5-year survival rate of 20%. International studies have however shown that head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) carries an average 30% survival rate. The cost
Borg Xuereb, Herman Karl +2 more
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Education as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti‐Marshallian politics that sees the language of ...
Margaret Kohn
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Severity as a Priority Setting Criterion: Setting a Challenging Research Agenda [PDF]
, 2019 Priority setting in health care is ubiquitous and health authorities are increasingly recognising the need for priority setting guidelines to ensure efficient, fair, and equitable resource allocation. While cost-effectiveness concerns
Barra, Mathias +6 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Global bioethics: it's past and future. [PDF]
Glob Bioeth, 2022 Macpherson C.
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